#205 AutoOpts includes non-dual-licensed code --> aggregated work GPLv3 (non BSD)

[Andreas Metzler]

Hello,

libopts is supposed to be dual-licensed LGPLv3+/BSD, however autogen-5.19.93/autoopts/ contains a couple of files which according to their license headers are GPLv3+-only:
alloca.in.h
arg-nonnull.h
c++defs.h
dup2.c
errno.in.h
fd-hook.h
gettext.h
intprops.h
[...]

I suspect some of these might have been copied from gnulib. Perhaps gnulib-tool was not invoked with --lgpl=2?

[Bruce Korb]

I guess that's what I get for depending on gnulib. They change, I have to suck in a bunch more of that project and suddenly I'm screwed. I've actually been retired for 5 years and figured I'd spend a little time cleaning up hang-out items. I think I may be pulling at a thread in a knit sweater. (i.e. it's going to be endless.) I'll see if it's easy. If so, I'll fix it. If not, folks will just have to use a prior version.

I have other things I do nowadays. (See attached.)

[Andreas Metzler]

Nice birds :-)

This indeed seems to improve thing a lot:

diff --git a/config/bootstrap.local b/config/bootstrap.local
index 3aecd4b6..871e2029 100644
--- a/config/bootstrap.local
+++ b/config/bootstrap.local
@@ -171,6 +171,7 @@ run_gnulib_tool() {
        --import
        --lib=do_not_make_me
        --libtool
+       --lgpl=2
        --local-dir=tmp
        --m4-base=config
        --makefile-name=gnulib.mk

[Bruce Korb]

The lower bird is defending its source of sugar water.

I cannot actually use that "--lgpl=2". If I do, then gnulib-tool errors out on incompatible modules.
If I remove the modules, then the build errors out because needed packages are not present.

[Andreas Metzler]

Bruce Korb wrote
[...]

I cannot actually use that "--lgpl=2". If I do, then gnulib-tool errors out on incompatible modules.
If I remove the modules, then the build errors out because needed packages are not present.

The only failing module is timespec which is LGPLv3+

[Andreas Metzler]

Andreas Metzler wrote

Bruce Korb wrote
[...]

I cannot actually use that "--lgpl=2". If I do, then gnulib-tool errors out on incompatible modules.
If I remove the modules, then the build errors out because needed packages are not present.

The only failing module is timespec which is LGPLv3+

Looks like I was wrong here, I missed unlocked-io (GPLv3+).

[Bruce Korb]

Ah. One of many that I added. I'll ask the gnulib folks about it. It's a pretty trivial module.

[Bruce Korb]

alpha release 5.19.95

[Bruce Korb]

the unnecessary dependency on the vacuous timespec gnulib module has been removed.
alpha release v5.19.95

[Andreas Metzler]

Good morning,

thanks. License headers still say GPL3 since config/bootstrap.local was not updated with --lgpl=2.

[Bruce Korb]

Oops. I was turning on and off gnulib-tool options trying to figure out which were superfluous. It looks like I didn't put that one back. For x.96, I guess. :)