xgettext (Re: replication of stuff in /usr/gnu)

[Darren.Reed at Sun.COM]

Nicolas Williams wrote:

>Speaking of GNU stuff that should be better integrated into Solaris, the
>GNU xgettext is a strict superset of the Solaris xgettext, and it has
>important features.
>  
>

I'd like to see any discussion of this postponed until we have a
clear understanding of what direction (if any) will be taken with
respect to GPLv3.

Why is GPLv3 relevant here?  texinfo (upon which xgettext is
built) has recently been updated to GPLv3 and it seems reasonable
that other tools, such as xgettext (which is clearly related) will
follow soon.

Junking the Solaris version of xgettext may leave us with a hole
that cannot be filled when xgettext finally moves to GPLv3 if we
are unwilling to accept GPLv3 packages.

Darren