On 30 June 2016 at 19:50, Jose Fonseca <jfons...@vmware.com> wrote: > On 30/06/16 18:13, Ian Romanick wrote: >> >> I think I might want to use gperf for something in Mesa, but I'm not >> 100% sure yet. Before I proceed, is it even acceptable to add that as a >> build dependency? > > > > I presume C code generated by gperf is freely usable and it's not subject to > GPL, right? (I couldn't find any explicit mention of that in the docs.) > Your assumption is spot on. Here's a slightly more authoritative reference.
https://www.gnu.org/software/gperf/manual/gperf.html#Output-Copyright > > It looks like the source code builds for Windows with MSVC. So while it > will be a bit of a hassle to get it added to our build toolchain, that's not > a blocker. > Shame the https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/ hasn't been updated in a long time. On the topic in question - we should be fine with it. All Linux and most/all BSDs distros ship the tool, plus we'll only use it to generate sources when working with git checkouts. -Emil _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
