Re: gplv3 files and updates

2007-07-16 Thread Jim Meyering
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: >> consider what it means: >> You prepare everything for a release, test to your heart's content, >> and then at release time you rerun gnulib-tool to update copyright >> notices. Unfortunately, that might also pull in other (untested)

Re: second call: please nail down the license terms of some more modules

2007-07-16 Thread Yoann Vandoorselaere
Le dimanche 15 juillet 2007 à 16:59 +0200, Bruno Haible a écrit : > Hi all, > > There was no objection when I said that: the majority of gnulib modules will > migrate from GPLv2+ to GPLv3+ and from LGPLv2+ to LGPLv3+. So I assume we can > go for it in a few days? For the reasons I mentioned earli

Re: second call: please nail down the license terms of some more modules

2007-07-16 Thread Yoann Vandoorselaere
Le lundi 16 juillet 2007 à 09:33 +0200, Yoann Vandoorselaere a écrit : > Le dimanche 15 juillet 2007 à 16:59 +0200, Bruno Haible a écrit : > > Hi all, > > > > There was no objection when I said that: the majority of gnulib modules will > > migrate from GPLv2+ to GPLv3+ and from LGPLv2+ to LGPLv3+.

Re: second call: please nail down the license terms of some more modules

2007-07-16 Thread Bruno Haible
Yoann Vandoorselaere wrote: > Even if we provide a list of modules we use doesn't mean that we're not > going to need new module tomorrow, or that another library project > licensed under GPLv2 will need that module. I believe we can handle this on demand, like we did in the past. gnulib-tool will

Re: second call: please nail down the license terms of some more modules

2007-07-16 Thread Yoann Vandoorselaere
Le lundi 16 juillet 2007 à 11:28 +0200, Bruno Haible a écrit : > Yoann Vandoorselaere wrote: > > Even if we provide a list of modules we use doesn't mean that we're not > > going to need new module tomorrow, or that another library project > > licensed under GPLv2 will need that module. > > I beli

Re: second call: please nail down the license terms of some more modules

2007-07-16 Thread Yoann Vandoorselaere
Le lundi 16 juillet 2007 à 10:14 +0200, Yoann Vandoorselaere a écrit : > Le lundi 16 juillet 2007 à 09:33 +0200, Yoann Vandoorselaere a écrit : > > Le dimanche 15 juillet 2007 à 16:59 +0200, Bruno Haible a écrit : > > > Hi all, > > > > > > There was no objection when I said that: the majority of g

Re: second call: please nail down the license terms of some more modules

2007-07-16 Thread Bruno Haible
Yoann Vandoorselaere wrote: > Here is the patch for the above module, Thanks. I applied it, plus the same on a few dependencies that you missed: lseek (needed by fseeko) and getdelim (needed by getline). 2007-07-16 Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * modules/lseek (License): Use the syn

Re: second call: please nail down the license terms of some more modules

2007-07-16 Thread Bruno Haible
Yoann Vandoorselaere wrote: > don't you think this could be a show stopper to early GnuLib adopters? No, I don't think so. Projects which have been using already cannot have missed the long thread here; projects which will adopt it in the future will see that there is no problem with the first few

Re: licenses.texi and sectioning commands

2007-07-16 Thread Karl Berry
@node GNU Lesser General Public License @appendix GNU Lesser General Public License @include lgpl-3.0.texi @heading The GNU General Public License @include gpl-3.0.texi COPYING.LESSER could be done the same way, for consistency. Actually, I woke up this morning and realiz

Re: licenses.texi and sectioning commands

2007-07-16 Thread Roland McGrath
> I.e., don't forget gfdl.texi. Is that the intention? > > Yes. I checked in new versions of all the Texinfo licenses to gnulib: > fdl.texi gpl-2.0.texi gpl-3.0.texi lgpl-2.1.texi lgpl-3.0.texi. > > Let me know if problems ... The old lgpl.texi was usable in a manual like libc's with:

RE: make error with tar-1.18

2007-07-16 Thread Zimmerman, Alex (TS)
Hello Bruno, The patch you suggested worked fine. The make was successful without error and the executable seems to be working okay. Many thanks for your help. Cheers! --Alex Z. -Original Message- From: Bruno Haible [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 7/12/2007 4:46 PM To: Zimmerman, Al

Re: second call: please nail down the license terms of some more modules

2007-07-16 Thread Paul Eggert
Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I haven't been following whether glibc is > going to be upgraded to LGPLv3 or not. Will it? Yes. That has started to happen already; the v2-only files were updated to say v2-or-later on July 14. The rest of the v3 patch is kinda large and is still