xalloc-oversized: relax license to LGPLv2+

Unlike the bulk of xalloc* which calls exit() on allocation failure,
and thus is unacceptable in a library, the xalloc-oversized.h header
is a mere macro that makes checks for allocation overflow possible in
all sorts of portable code.  In fact, the LGPLv2+ module malloca
already has a copy of this check, arguing that this header is more
useful under a permissive license.  See also this thread.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2013-05/msg00092.html

* modules/xalloc-oversized (License): Change from GPLv3+.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit 33758ba748480b6e85c34894deb4e6aed15b4bd2)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 4babec6..f3a9a21 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2013-07-03  Eric Blake  <eblake@redhat.com>
 
+       xalloc-oversized: relax license to LGPLv2+
+       * modules/xalloc-oversized (License): Change from GPLv3+.
+
        nproc: relax license to LGPLv2+
        * modules/nproc (License): Change from LGPLv3+.
 

diff --git a/modules/xalloc-oversized b/modules/xalloc-oversized
index 708c621..7f9bd18 100644 (file)
--- a/modules/xalloc-oversized
+++ b/modules/xalloc-oversized
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Include:
 "xalloc-oversized.h"
 
 License:
-GPL
+LGPLv2+
 
 Maintainer:
 all