Re: [PATCH 2/5] Import idx.h from gnulib

[Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>]

Florian Weimer wrote:
> > diff --git a/include/idx.h b/include/idx.h
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000000..ad7d31a2bc
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/include/idx.h
> > @@ -0,0 +1,113 @@
> > +/* A type for indices and sizes.
> > +
> > +   Copyright (C) 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > +
> > +   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> > +   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
> > +   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
> > +   any later version.
> > +
> > +   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
> > +   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> > +   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
> > +   GNU General Public License for more details.
> > +
> > +   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
> > +   along with this program; if not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
> 
> This file is linked into the library itself, so we can only accept
> something that is under a compatible license (probably LGPLv2 or later).

The file is actually under LGPLv2+ [1][2]. You can replace the license
header with an LGPLv2+ header.

Bruno

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/Gnulib-licensing.html
[2] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob_plain;f=modules/idx