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

[Alan Coopersmith]

Darren.Reed at Sun.COM wrote:
> 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.

That's simply a matter of license review, same as we do for all the
GPLv2, Apache, BSD/MIT, and other externally licensed components we
bring in.   I don't know that GPLv3 would be really any different
there, though the lawyers will need to tell us that for sure.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering