Decouple glob from gnulib?

[Paul Eggert]

On 03/30/2016 12:49 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> gnulib switched to GPLv3 for its glob implementation a while back, so
> straight imports are out of the question.

No, the Gnulib license is LGPLv2+, so you can import without problem. 
The actual license is in modules/glob; gnulib-tool rewrites the text in 
the source files when you import.

>
> I would like to remove Amiga (not m68k, the operating system) and VMS
> support to simplify maintenance, and remove conditional compilation as
> far as possible.  (Sadly, Hurd doesn't have d_type, but at least there
> is d_ino.)
>

That would be fine for Gnulib, as they are no longer practical porting 
targets. This sort of cleanup shouldn't necessitate decoupling.