Re: [Confuse-devel] questions about libconfuse code / conditionalincludes...

[Josh Kropf]

I'm no expert on the GNU license but I *think* your allowed to
include the source files directly provided:

* each file retains it's copyright notice
* you publish any modifications
* your project has a compatible license

Again, you might want to browse the GNU license to verify.


On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:56:05 +0100, Wolfgang Dautermann
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Josh Kropf schrieb:
>> Hi Wolfgang,
>>
>> I'm not one of the confuse devs but I was just curious why you
>> believe libconfuse is not a standard library?
>>
>> On the few systems I've used libconfuse is readily available in the
>> package management system
> 
> I did not mean "not packaged in the distribution", but "usually not
> installed". As long as not many projects (and no big projects) use it,
> the usual Linux/BSD/... Distribution will not install it by default.
> Yes, I know, thats not the fault of libconfuse...
> 
> But I want to make it as easy for the user to use the software
> (especially, if he tries to compile it from source) - and there should
> be as few external dependencies as possible.
> 
> A friend of mine gave in a example:
> http://ekiga.org/index.php?rub=5&path=debian/sid-i386
> vs.
> http://ekiga.org/index.php?rub=5&path=windows/windows
> 
> (For installing the Win-version of that software you can just download
> *one* file - and no external dependencies. Easy for the user. On the
> other hand you have to download 11 packages (yes, I know, "apt-get" does
> it usually automatically...)
> 
> So I want to include the necessary files (3) in our project
> (http://www.blinkensisters.org/) - and there it would be fine, if I do
> not need many modifications, so that I can upgrade the included files
> easy, if you relase a new version...
> 
> Best regards, Wolfgang