Re: I18n with gettext

Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:

> David Waite wrote:
>
>> COPYING says GPL, and RMS has used gettext as the primary example of
>> a library which was a good choice for the GPL license vs LGPL.
>
>
>
> It's LGPL. In fact it's included in GNU libc, which is LGPL.

Glibc is *not* LGPL. It is GPL with an exception that allows it to be
linked with closed-source code. Also, the /standalone/ version of
gettext has always had a different license than the glibc version (i.e.,
GPL without the exception).

*however*

Sometime last year RMS was finally persuaded to relent, so the latest
releases of gettext are now LGPL. IIRC the KDE guys threatened to pull
the plug on GNU/Linux support if the license wasn't changed, or something.

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