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

[Darren.Reed at Sun.COM]

Nicolas Williams wrote:

>On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 01:21:45PM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
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>>Darren.Reed at Sun.COM wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>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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>Exactly.  Also, as long as GPLv3 doesn't "infect" (please, hold the
>flames) consumers of CLIs then there's no reason whatsoever to think
>that Legal wouldn't approve inclusion of an GPLv3'ed xgettext.
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In the non-GPL open source communities that I watch, there is
very real fear about what you're wary of (infection of others
through use/linking) but nobody yet has a solid legal opinion.

Darren