Re: [SVN-DEV] Re: working.

"C. Scott Ananian" <cananian@lesser-magoo.lcs.mit.edu> writes:

> On 22 Aug 2001, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>
> > gettext is GPLed, not LGPLed, so we can't use it. Not unless we find
> > a BSD-compatible replacement, or reinvent the wheel. We've been over
> > this bridge before. :-)
>
> I don't think this is right. The gettext *standard* is Uniforum's. It's
> not related to GNU at all. GNU have *an implementation* of gettext, with
> some GPL'ed utilities to make it easier to generate PO files and such.
> There's *also* an implementation (perhaps the same one) of gettext in
> glibc. THIS IMPLEMENTATION IS LGPL'ED. Look at /usr/include/libintl.h on
> your system, if you don't believe me.

Well, I use FreeBSD, so I can't see. :-)

> Conclusion: use 'gettext' but don't include the GNU implementation in the
> package. Allow a non-localizable version to be compiled for people
> without a gettext(3) function in their C library.

Sounds good to me.

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Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:36 2006