Re: History of gettext libintl licensing

[Bruno Haible]

Hello,

> From ftp.gnu.org I can get gettext-0.10.35, which
> has libintl under GPL, and gettext-0.10.40, which has it under LGPL.
> Were there any releases in between, and if so, is there any way
> to get them now?

There were releases 0.10.36 to 0.10.39, and all of them were under
GPL, like 0.10.35. You can get them from
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/gettext/.

> I'm sorry to bother you, but I'm trying to research a possible
> GPL violation.

If someone distributes libintl 0.10.3[0-9] as if it were LGPL, like
libintl 0.10.40 and 0.11.x, it would not be a very severe GPL
violation, because the intent behind putting libintl 0.10.40 under
LGPL is to make it 1. usable even by proprietary programs, 2. usable
by the GNOME project.

Bruno