Richard W.M. Jones wrote on 2013-09-23: > The specific pain point for me is narrower than this however: > > Currently it does not seem to be possible to specify (in gnulib-tool) > that you want only --lgpl=2 modules for one part of a project and > don't care less about the modules used by another part of a project. > This makes gnulib a minefield if part of your project is a library > (that must be LGPLv2) and another part is a set of GPL'd tools.
Since 2015, we now document an approach for this use-case [1]. In this approach, you pass the --lgpl=2 option to the first but not to the second gnulib-tool invocation. This should solve the problem. Bruno [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/Multiple-instances.html
