From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: J.Kenyon@ordinarygizmos.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Icu4c branch
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2023 12:41:56 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875ybjzrvv.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1pXabE-0003Dl-K1@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 01 Mar 2023 23:31:24 -0500")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> I see a possible GPL issue here -- but since I don't know Android, I
> can't tell whether it is really an issue.
>
> What does the icu library do?
ICU provides internationalization support for the libxml2 library (which
Emacs depends on to parse XML data.)
> Does it qualify as a system library according to GPL version 3?
No.
> Are the Android.mk files source files?
> Are they omitted from recent versions of the library?
Android.mk files are Makefiles that tell the Android build system how to
build a library. Android themselves have ommitted those files from
their source code, as they now use another build system called ``soong''
which uses a different format, but for obvious reasons Emacs can only
use the Make-based build system.
Older versions of the Android version of icu4c contain Android.mk files.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-02 4:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-21 4:17 Icu4c branch Jonathan Kenyon
2023-02-21 5:31 ` Po Lu
2023-03-02 4:31 ` Richard Stallman
2023-03-02 4:41 ` Po Lu [this message]
2023-03-05 4:05 ` Richard Stallman
2023-03-05 5:53 ` Po Lu
2023-03-08 4:12 ` Richard Stallman
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