l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Hello, > > marcool...@sapo.pt writes: > >> In the file LICENSE is written: >> "Guile is covered under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public >> License, version 2.1. ..." > > Roughly, libguile itself and supporting modules under ‘ice-9’ are all > LGPL. Those other files you found as GPL’d are either build-support > programs, standalone programs, or test programs, which is fine. > >> Remove or remove and re-write or ask to the copyright holder of >> the file inet_aton.c (guile-1.8.7/libguile/) to remove the 3º clause. > > This one is problematic. Bruno Haible suggests that we should be using > ‘inet_pton’ to get both IPv4 and IPv6 support, so we should just do this > (in 1.9 at least). > > Out of curiosity, do you have a script to generate such reports? I’d be > interested in it, and perhaps it’d be a useful addition to Gnulib. > There is a "licensecheck" Perl script in the Debian package "devscripts", which attempts to do this. I've used it when packaging libunistring for Debian -- it got many files right, but you still need to manually verify and extend the results.
Regards, Rotty -- Andreas Rottmann -- <http://rotty.yi.org/>
