Simon Josefsson wrote:
> What is gnulib's policy on non-FSF and/or non-(L)GPL licensed modules?
> 
> I thought that we required FSF copyright assignment for contributions,

Yes, we require an FSF copyright assignment; Luca's paperwork is ongoing.

> and that there were a preference for (L)GPL licenses.

Yes, we are not fans of license proliferation. That's why I voted
against extending gnulib-tool that way [1].

But since MIT or BSD licensed code can be distributed as LGPL [2][3], we
can include such code. Just like glibc does [4].

> Did we ever write that down somewher, or is there no consensus on that?

There is consensus, but we did not write it down so far.

Bruno

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2026-07/msg00094.html
[2] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-compatibility.html
[3] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#X11License
[4] glibc/resolv/base64.c, glibc/sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_gamma_r.c




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