Re: Embedded modifiers in the regex engine

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Dima Kogan <lists@dima.secretsauce.net>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2016 17:50:01 -0800
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> From: Dima Kogan <dima@secretsauce.net>
> >> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 23:19:32 -0800
> >> CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> >> 
> >> I'm looking at importing the regex test suite in glibc to emacs.
> >> Would this be possible even if the copyright holders of those tests
> >> haven't assigned their work to the fsf? These are tests and not part
> >> of emacs on some level, so would that make it ok?
> >
> > If the test suite is GPL v3+, I don't think there should be a
> > problem
> 
> If only. Some of the test cases in glibc are their own (LGPL) and some
> others came from other projects (boost, BSD, MIT). To be clear, I'm
> talking about the test cases themselves, not the code that evaluates the
> tests. Does this mean we need to write our own test if we want them?

Not sure.  Probably someone like Richard needs to look closer at the
licenses.

> >From the earlier emails it wasn't obvious if there was already a
> long-term plan to replace the regex engine. Is there such a plan? What
> do we hope to move to?

We have plans, yes, but AFAIK no one is working on that.