changeset 17441:4b1922190fd5

xalloc-oversized: relax license to LGPLv2+ Unlike the bulk of xalloc* which calls exit() on allocation failure, and thus is unacceptable in a library, the xalloc-oversized.h header is a mere macro that makes checks for allocation overflow possible in all sorts of portable code. In fact, the LGPLv2+ module malloca already has a copy of this check, arguing that this header is more useful under a permissive license. See also this thread. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2013-05/msg00092.html * modules/xalloc-oversized (License): Change from GPLv3+. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
author Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
date Wed, 03 Jul 2013 15:38:07 -0600
parents 0d0daceb5bdd
children f397e0c78a14
files ChangeLog modules/xalloc-oversized
diffstat 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+]
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@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2013-07-03  Eric Blake  <eblake@redhat.com>
 
+	xalloc-oversized: relax license to LGPLv2+
+	* modules/xalloc-oversized (License): Change from GPLv3+.
+
 	nproc: relax license to LGPLv2+
 	* modules/nproc (License): Change from LGPLv3+.
 
--- a/modules/xalloc-oversized
+++ b/modules/xalloc-oversized
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 "xalloc-oversized.h"
 
 License:
-GPL
+LGPLv2+
 
 Maintainer:
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