Re: [Vala] License clarification

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 09:54 -0400, Michel Salim wrote:
> On 07/09/2007, Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch> wrote:
> > Please note that gapi2xml.pl and gapi_pp.pl in the vapigen/gidlgen
> > subdirectory are licensed under the GPLv2, however they don't affect the
> > license of the Vala compiler. curses.vala in the vapi subdirectory is
> > licensed unter the 2-clause BSD license.
>
> OK. No mixing problem with the curses.vala, but the gapi2xml.pl and
> gapi_pp.pl -- they are required by gidlgen to function, right?

gidlgen is just a shell script calling the two perl scripts, yes.

> I might then split the -devel subpackage into two. The header files
> are needed for rebuilding valac, so they can go in -devel, and the
> *gen tools can go in -tools. Do they depend on the header files as
> well?

gidlgen and the two perl scripts don't depend on libvala or its header
files. vapigen depends on libvala but not on any other part.

Thanks for maintaining the Fedore package.

Jürg