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Re: gethostname: LGPL -> LGPLv2+
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Simon Josefsson |
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Re: gethostname: LGPL -> LGPLv2+ |
Date: |
Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:44:13 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) |
Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
> I'd like to use the gethostname module in libvirt (LGPLv2+),
> for use when building for mingw.
>
> Considering the size of the module (trivial, 10-line gethostname function
> and minimal gethostname.m4), would anyone object to relaxing its license
> from LGPL to LGPLv2+?
>
> This is mainly to avoid gnulib's link-time warning:
>
> ...: undefined reference to address@hidden'
>
> In this particular case, gethostname is essentially a no-op,
> and always returns the empty string, since mingw
> has no uname function, and in that case, gethostname's
> body reverts to this:
>
> strcpy (name, ""); /* Hardcode your system name if you want.
> */
FWIW, I think it would be useful to have it as LGPLv2+ as well.
/Simon