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

[Nicolas Williams]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 01:15:42PM -0700, Darren.Reed at Sun.COM wrote:
> 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?!  We already include plenty of GPL2 stuff and if Legal approves any
OSRs to include GPL3 stuff then we can include that too.  xgettext is
NOT a library, it's a command, and its output is not encumbered by the
GPL nor the LGPL nor any other license.

> 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.

So what?

> 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.

How would that happen?

Nico
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