RC2 for third_party.

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Mon Aug 11 09:58:28 MDT 2014


On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 01:14:15PM +0200, 'Jelmer Vernooij' wrote:
> > 
> > I think Jelmer objected to it lately and said we should use the ini parsing 
> > code from param.
> Yes, I think we should reuse existing code in the tree rather than
> adding more ini implementations that we have to maintain. :-)

Yeah, I'd love to re-use the param mechanism, but it's
got too many authors to be re-licensed in a reasonable
timeframe :-(.

> Jeremy pointed out though that the existing code is GPL though, while
> this needs to be LGPL.

Actually, I think the existing iniparser is MIT/BSD, so
it would be good to make any new code the same (I know
the legal depts. of several vendors would be much happier :-).

Jeremy.


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