Re: [ANNOUNCE] util-linux v2.35

[Carlos Santos]

Hi Karel,

On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 7:59 AM Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> The util-linux release v2.35 is available at
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>   http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.35/
>
> Feedback and bug reports, as always, are welcomed.
>
>   Karel
>

That's great. Thanks!

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> Changes between v2.34 and v2.35
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> docs:
>    - Fix adjtime documentation  [Pierre Labastie]
>    - add GPLv3 text  [Karel Zak]

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?

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Carlos Santos <unixmania@xxxxxxxxx>