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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: fw at deneb dot enyo dot de, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, sezeroz at gmail dot com
- Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 22:33:53 +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: fw@deneb.enyo.de, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, sezeroz@gmail.com
> Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 15:23:46 -0400
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> >> But then the implementation would need relicensing as well, wouldn't
> >> it?
> >
> > Which implementation? of Ozkan's library?
>
> libiberty's filename_cmp.c is GPL and implements two of the functions in
> filenames.h; if those are why he's using it, then it's still GPL unless
> filename_cmp.c is changed also.
I'm guessing he only wants the macros and will delete the rest. (The
original file as written by me years ago had nothing but those few
macros.) But I will leave it to Ozkan to give the definitive answer.