On Monday 16 July 2007 17:15, Shane M. Coughlan wrote: > Hi Kern > > Kern Sibbald wrote: > > Yes, and in addition, after Josselin's email, I did a bit of research, and for > > at least one of the files that we use (fnmatch.c), the FSF license was > > changed from GPL to LGPL sometime in 2004 the best I can tell. > > Unfortunately, we are still using the old GPL'ed version rather than the > > newer LGPL'ed version. > > While it would be best to convert to the newer version, it is not so easy as > > the we have made some modifications to the old one to support Win32 systems > > (stupid difference of path separators, ...). > > Question: for old GPL'ed versions of fnmatch.c and fnmatch.h that we are using > > copyrighted in 1997 by FSF, would it be possible to modify them to use the > > LGPL as you are currently doing? > > That would give me a bit of breathing room (i.e. no recoding for the moment). > > Long term, I am probably going to use your newer LGPLed version since it > > supports UTF-8, but that will take some modifications and lots of testing. > > FSF would need to answer this question directly. FSF and FSFE are > sister organisations but we are administratively separate. I will pass > this question onward off-list. :)
OK, understood thanks. This is not really extremely urgent since its determination will not change the immenent 2.2.0 release. > > > However, one important issue to work through is Josselin's claim that due to > > the wording in GPL v3, I could switch to it, and it would be OK to link > > OpenSSL in as shared objects. > > I am discussing this with Brett Smith at the moment. Thanks. This point is important (pressing) as it could provide a quick solution for Debian. Best regards, Kern > > Regards > > Shane > > -- > Shane Coughlan > FTF Coordinator > Free Software Foundation Europe > Office: +41435000366 ext 408 / Mobile: +41792633406 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Support Free Software > http://fsfe.org > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
