Eric Blake wrote: > LGPL, or LGPLv2+? LGPL. No one has asked for an LGPLv2+ copy of the 'futimens' nor 'utimens' modules.
> I know we were reluctant to relicense openat and friends for a while, > because the fallback could abort (which is never safe for a library). I disagree: It is OK for a library to call 'abort ()'. abort () means that the developer made a mistake, and that mistake needs to be reported to them. abort () is the best means to do that, because it provides a stack trace and even, on some platforms (those with 'apport'), sends a core dump to the developer. In gnulib the following LGPL modules contain calls to abort (): acl-permissions areadlink array-list array-oset astrxfrm avltree-list avltree-oset avltreehash-list carray-list euidaccess fcntl fd-hook fma fmod freadahead freadptr freadseek fseterr fts hash i-ring iconv imaxdiv linkedhash-list mbrtowc mbscasestr mbssep mbsstr obstack perror popen random rbtree-list rbtree-oset rbtreehash-list regex rename rint setlocale sigaction sigprocmask strerror strerror_r-posix striconv striconveh strtod sublist tempname tsearch uname vasnprintf version-etc wctob xstrtol And glibc contains tons of abort () calls as well. > But I'm okay with my contributions, whether to LGPL or even the looser > LGPLv2+. Thanks. Bruno -- In memoriam Marie Antoinette <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Antoinette>
