Re: exit

[Eric Blake]

According to Simon Josefsson on 3/4/2010 6:33 AM:
> Building all modules leads to this warning:
> 
> gnulib-tool: warning: module obstack depends on a module with an incompatible 
> license: exit
> 
> 
> Is the 'exit' module really useful, other than transition for old code
> when the exit module provided something?  It was changed to this content
> back in 2007.
> 
> How about adding this to the 'exit' module:
> 
> ,----
> | Status:
> | obsolete
> | 
> | Notice:
> | This module is obsolete. It will be removed on 2011-01-01.  Use 'stdlib'.
> `----
> 
> Second to that option, how about changing the license to 'unlimited'
> since the 'exit' module is just meta information?

How about both - add the obsoletion notice, but also change the license to
LGPLv2 (unlimited seems a bit much in this case, since it is not build tools).

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