On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Gabriel M. Beddingfield  wrote:
> Sebastian Moors wrote:
>> I'm to new in this project to know what the intention was to ship
>> hydrogen with
>> tinyxml. Comix, do you remember why?
>
> I'm not comix (:P), but I did play around in the tinyxml code a few months 
> ago.
>  It looks to me like it's embedded because it's small and because it's a 
> fairly
> obscure library.  For example, tinyxml does not currently appear in any of the
> Debian repositories (and I think Comix uses Debian).  It's likely that none of
> the other distros had tinyxml either when H2 was first shipped.
>
> I prefer to keep it embedded ATM.  This is in part because TinyXML (as a
> library) has moved on, and may introduce new "issues" for us.  If we do
> anything, I think it should be after 0.9.4, since this is a feature request 
> and
> not a bug.
>

That is fine, I can work on a better patch that doesn't force either choice.
But I think you will need to add another COPYING file for TinyXML,
since its license is not GPL. It has a zlib license.
Note that, right now hydrogen is GPL+zlib, rather than just GPL.

Orcan

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