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[Rlib-devel] RLIB / libextractor / nl_langinfo license question

[Bob D. <bd...@si...>]

Nils Durner,

First: If your not the guy who contributed
http://www.mail-archive.com/gnu...@gn.../msg00184.html 
my appologies.

Zoltan Boszormenyi recently added a Windows port to RLIB (Open source
report writer)  

http://rlib.sicompos.com

One of the things missing on win32 is the langinfo stuff.  We would like
to use your work to make a lgpl library of langinfo, and other things
missing on win32 such as monetary.h

The origional glibc nl_langinfo code is LGPL, however yours in GPL??  We
were wondering if you would be ok with the RLIB Project making a new
win32 compat library w/ your code (licended under the LGPL) along with
new code for things such as "strfmon"

Thanks for your time!

- bob


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Bob Doan <bd...@si...>

[Rlib-devel] Re: RLIB / libextractor / nl_langinfo license question

[N. D. <nd...@we...>]

Hi,

> We would like
> to use your work to make a lgpl library of langinfo, and other things
> missing on win32 such as monetary.h
>
> The origional glibc nl_langinfo code is LGPL, however yours in GPL??

Yes, libextractor is covered under the GPL.

> We
> were wondering if you would be ok with the RLIB Project making a new
> win32 compat library w/ your code (licended under the LGPL) along with
> new code for things such as "strfmon"

Yes, that's OK.

I've been thinking about forking the code off into a separate project 
(GNUnet and libextractor currently use it), so if the code at 
https://gnunet.org/svn/GNUnet/src/util/win/ is what you're looking for, 
we could work on this new project together.


    Nils Durner

[Rlib-devel] Re: RLIB / libextractor / nl_langinfo license question

[Bob D. <bd...@si...>]

> > We
> > were wondering if you would be ok with the RLIB Project making a new
> > win32 compat library w/ your code (licended under the LGPL) along with
> > new code for things such as "strfmon"
> 
> Yes, that's OK.

Great, thanks!

> 
> I've been thinking about forking the code off into a separate project 
> (GNUnet and libextractor currently use it), so if the code at 
> https://gnunet.org/svn/GNUnet/src/util/win/ is what you're looking for, 
> we could work on this new project together.
> 

Yes, this is exactly what I'm looking for.  I'm not the best guy however
to identify all the pieces that should be needed for these things as I
almost never use windows and I really only speak English, and perhaps a
little spanish ;)

Although I have seen my fair shair of Hungarian latley tracking down
utf8 bugs in RLIB for zoltan.

Would you guys be open to starting a new project on sourceforge to hold
these pirces of the posix/win32 puzzle?  

- bob

[Rlib-devel] Re: RLIB / libextractor / nl_langinfo license question

[N. D. <nd...@we...>]

> Would you guys be open to starting a new project on sourceforge to hold
> these pirces of the posix/win32 puzzle?

OK, I have registered a new project there:

    _Description_:
    PlibC is a C runtime library for Windows that extends the MS libc by
    providing features defined in the POSIX standard and the Single Unix
    Specification.

    _Registration Description_:
    When existing Linux software is ported to MS Windows, a lot of
    functions provided by the (g)libc are missing or incompletely
    implemented. This library provides (re)implementations of those
    functions. It is largely written in C (C++ is only used where
    absolutely necessary).

    Users of software that use this libary should not notice the fact
    that the software is unixbased. Unlike Cygwin, this library
    integrates into Windows and does not try to imitate every single
    behaviour of Unix. The imitation takes place on source-level only.
    This means better performance and Windows "Look and Feel".

    Existing libraries that have been ported to Windows (pthreads, GTK,
    gettext...) will not be reimplemented/copied.

    This code is already used by the GNU projects GNUnet
    (www.gnunet.org) and libextractor (www.gnunet.org/libextractor). The
    RLIB project (sourceforge.net/projects/rlib/) has manifested interest.


I'll report back when the project is approved.


    Nils Durner

[Rlib-devel] Re: RLIB / libextractor / nl_langinfo license question

[N. D. <nd...@we...>]

> I'll report back when the project is approved.

The SF project is here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/plibc/

I have commited the first line of code to the CVS repository at
 cvs.sf.net:/cvsroot/plibc
but it's not complete yet.

The PlibC mailing list is here:
 https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plibc-devel


    Nils Durner