Function replacements (warnings from autoscan)

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Thu Jul 28 15:41:56 UTC 2011


On 27 Jul 2011, Russ Allbery said:

> Julien ÉLIE <julien at trigofacile.com> writes:
>> Should we do something?  (Putting Gnulib replacements in our lib
>> directory and adding the needed changes to make use of them?)
>
> Gnulib is unfortunately a licensing landmine, as a lot of the replacement
> functions are under either the GPL or the LGPL, with various fallout for
> the licensing of the rest of the project that uses them.

However, GPLed stuff is generally downlicensed to LGPL on request.
(But of course that's not loose enough for INN...)

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