From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 960D6C2D0DB for ; Sat, 25 Jan 2020 10:51:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B70E2071E for ; Sat, 25 Jan 2020 10:51:38 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=redhat.com header.i=@redhat.com header.b="BgYthqv7" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726194AbgAYKvh (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Jan 2020 05:51:37 -0500 Received: from us-smtp-delivery-1.mimecast.com ([207.211.31.120]:33885 "EHLO us-smtp-1.mimecast.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725710AbgAYKvh (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Jan 2020 05:51:37 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1579949495; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=uqFEuTpxU2pWPGTF545UEtB80eyGUAxWgMAokEVX9wE=; b=BgYthqv7Vgvdw2+hS6pjQEvTLj5PcZ7QOCXc8sB84aTuZo20M4LGg8YVb6mbNRfdR9N1yE nn1SfzlUogXi4XxjZffhf/tmIIcPNEONovSIvBBEkO7GPWrb8O6NBmmAcoP36zqJQfy/5y 7q/dvaW3gFNtySbfD6sl5yFZodpOxTY= Received: from mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (mimecast-mx01.redhat.com [209.132.183.4]) (Using TLS) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP id us-mta-425-H-uiSdKiNR2hLbqmCuz42Q-1; Sat, 25 Jan 2020 05:51:31 -0500 X-MC-Unique: H-uiSdKiNR2hLbqmCuz42Q-1 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.13]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 21341107ACC4; Sat, 25 Jan 2020 10:51:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from x2.net.home (ovpn-204-101.brq.redhat.com [10.40.204.101]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6968D8DC35; Sat, 25 Jan 2020 10:51:29 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2020 11:51:26 +0100 From: Karel Zak To: Carlos Santos Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.35 Message-ID: <20200125105126.xaopgydc7dlrpztt@x2.net.home> References: <20200121105711.zzeeolydlivqnik7@ws.net.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.13 Sender: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: util-linux@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 04:16:47PM -0300, Carlos Santos wrote: > That's a problem. It makes hwclock hard to include in embedded systems > due to the GPLv3 restrictions. > > I noticed that it comes due to sys-utils/hwclock-parse-date.y, which > was taken from gnulib. Would it be possible to take the file from an > previous version of gnulib that was still under GPLv2? > > An alternative approach would be porting a similar code using a more > liberal license, e.g. BSD. > > What do you think? I have tried to export it from gnulib with v2, but it was impossible by official gnulib tools. Maybe do it manually from some old tarball. I'll accept a patch for this if you have time do it. I'll like to release 2.35.1 ASAP (due to bug in sfdisk --move-data), so we can add this license change too. Karel -- Karel Zak http://karelzak.blogspot.com