Re: musl compatibility

2012-06-08 Thread Reuben Thomas
On 8 June 2012 11:19, Pedro Alves wrote: > I've heard such rants as well.  The rants are IMO, misdirected.  For instance, > IIRC, gnulib's freadahead use is caused by musl's printf not being posix > compliant, causing gnulib to pull in its printf replacement, which doesn't > work > on musl.  A li

Re: musl compatibility

2012-06-08 Thread Pedro Alves
On 06/07/2012 12:14 PM, Reuben Thomas wrote: > Someone just wrote a rant in a bug report for a program I maintain > about gnulib being the cause of many portability problems. I tracked > it down to the points raised here: > > http://www.etalabs.net/musl/faq.html > > Have you any plans to address

Re: [PATCH] maint.mk: fix VPATH issues

2012-06-08 Thread Jim Meyering
> Maybe you missed this one. Hi Akim, Indeed I did. I marked it as "read", thinking that thread was done. Please get in the habit of using a new subject for each patch.

Re: [PATCH] maint.mk: fix VPATH issues

2012-06-08 Thread Jim Meyering
Akim Demaille wrote: > This time, it's gnu-web-doc-update. I can't fully test it > now, as I had not defined manual_title in v2.5.1 :( > > From bc0749a1d9c7d8b05bbe49d45205a2e5576678bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Akim Demaille > Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 16:17:36 +0200 > Subject: [PATCH] gnu-web

Re: [PATCH] maint.mk: fix VPATH issues

2012-06-08 Thread Akim Demaille
Hi! Le 8 juin 2012 à 14:20, Jim Meyering a écrit : > One question: > > ... >> @@ -89,15 +110,23 @@ trap 'exit $?' 1 2 13 15 >> # We must build using sources for which --version reports the >> # just-released version number, not some string like 7.6.18-20761. >> # That version string propagates i

[PATCH] parse-duration: Lessen the GPL

2012-06-08 Thread Bruce Korb
This gets included by NTP and they need a more liberal license: From d9adda99d471074850b3563fad18fd1837397ca8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruce Korb Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 13:17:05 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] parse-duration: Lessen the GPL * lib/parse-duration.c: mark the license as "Lesser" * lib

Re: [PATCH] parse-duration: Lessen the GPL

2012-06-08 Thread Eric Blake
On 06/08/2012 02:20 PM, Bruce Korb wrote: > This gets included by NTP and they need a more liberal license: > > lib/parse-duration.c | 14 +++--- > lib/parse-duration.h |8 These hunks are not needed. We prefer to leave 'lib' at the latest license, and it is your use

Re: [PATCH] parse-duration: Lessen the GPL

2012-06-08 Thread Paul Eggert
On 06/08/2012 01:38 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > ased on 'git log', it looks like you need > consent from Paul, My contributions were trivial but for what it's worth it's OK with me to relicense this under the LGPL.

Re: [PATCH] parse-duration: Lessen the GPL

2012-06-08 Thread Bruce Korb
On 06/08/12 13:38, Eric Blake wrote: modules/parse-duration |2 +- This hunk is sufficient, but only if we either have agreement from all non-trivial contributors on making the change to the license, or permission from the FSF. Based on 'git log', it looks like you need consent from Paul,