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Re: Decouple glob from gnulib?
- From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- To: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 15:49:26 +0200
- Subject: Re: Decouple glob from gnulib?
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On 03/30/2016 03:46 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 30 Mar 2016 09:49, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> gnulib switched to GPLv3 for its glob implementation a while
>> back, so straight imports are out of the question.
>
> ask them, although i would highlight both are fully FSF
> copyrighted projects, so it shouldn't be a problem to just import &
> relicense and not require them to downgrade
Yes, but the technical concerns about this code, as it exists in
gnulib, are significant as well.
In my opinion, we should take ownership and clean it up.
Florian