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Re: Change license of filenames.h to LGPL
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, sezeroz at gmail dot com
- Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 22:21:59 +0300
- Subject: Re: Change license of filenames.h to LGPL
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- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> From: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
> Cc: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, sezeroz@gmail.com
> Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 15:00:46 -0400
>
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> > Because Ozkan wants to use it in an otherwise LGPL package.
>
> Ok, but that doesn't say why it's different. That reason could apply to
> any header in there. Do we need to convert all headers there to LGPL?
I understand that Ozkan only needs that one. Ozkan?
> Is this "otherwise LGPL package" in one of our repos, or elsewhere? Is
> he aware that filenames.h includes hashtab.h, which is GPL?
>
> (I'm not opposed to the change, just trying to make sure I understand
> it's scope)
I'll let Ozkan answer these questions. But if someone wants to know
which libraries need that, one of them is this:
http://libtimidity.sourceforge.net/