[vlc-devel] [vlc-commits] contrib: iconv: require GPL

Jean-Baptiste Kempf jb at videolan.org
Mon Sep 25 19:34:35 CEST 2017


Hello Rémi,

My understanding is that libiconv is under "GNU LIBRARY GENERAL PUBLIC
LICENSE v2" and the iconv utils are GPL.
See COPYING.LIB and COPYING in the root folder of iconv.

Am I wrong?

Best

On Mon, 25 Sep 2017, at 18:52, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> vlc | branch: master | Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net> | Mon Sep 25
> 19:41:34 2017 +0300| [b6c18f2a5b5d2995fcd126a2fab5213794716923] |
> committer: Rémi Denis-Courmont
> 
> contrib: iconv: require GPL
> 
> > http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi/vlc.git/?a=commit;h=b6c18f2a5b5d2995fcd126a2fab5213794716923
> ---
> 
>  contrib/src/iconv/rules.mak | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/contrib/src/iconv/rules.mak b/contrib/src/iconv/rules.mak
> index c998fd81fc..939e1868ea 100644
> --- a/contrib/src/iconv/rules.mak
> +++ b/contrib/src/iconv/rules.mak
> @@ -2,7 +2,9 @@
>  LIBICONV_VERSION := 1.15
>  LIBICONV_URL := $(GNU)/libiconv/libiconv-$(LIBICONV_VERSION).tar.gz
>  
> +ifdef GPL
>  PKGS += iconv
> +endif
>  # iconv cannot be detect with pkg-config, but it is mandated by POSIX.
>  # Hard-code based on the operating system.
>  ifndef HAVE_WIN32
> 
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