On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Jules Bean wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Santiago Vila wrote: > > > gettext had a security problem, Bug #28850, which has been fixed by > > Vincent Renardias in gettext_0.10.35-6.1 (NMU). (Thanks Vincent). > > > > However, the fix consisted in copying a set of files from libc, > > which is LGPLed, into gettext, which is GPLed. > > > > May be this really be done? (I think not). > > > > Thanks. > > [from the LGPL] > > 3. You may opt to apply the terms of the ordinary GNU General Public > License instead of this License to a given copy of the Library. To do > this, you must alter all the notices that refer to this License, so > that they refer to the ordinary GNU General Public License, version 2, > instead of to this License. (If a newer version than version 2 of the > ordinary GNU General Public License has appeared, then you can specify > that version instead if you wish.) Do not make any other change in > these notices.
Ok, so the gettext version currently in Incoming (which still has many files saying "this is LGPLed") is illegal, right? -- "1f9d975f0b955606fa1d9ccc492b7407" (a truly random sig)
