Re: [Bug-gnulib] Re: licenses again

[Bruno Haible]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> Perhaps you could modify gnulib-tool to add an option to change the
> GPL to LGPL ..., for the projects that need the LGPL'ed
> version?  That way, the package could specify which license it needs,
> with the default being the current behavior.

I agree, this would be useful. And if the invocation specifies
--license=lgpl but one of the modules or its dependencies is GPL,
gnulib-tool should give an error.

Bruno