Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 20:54:50 -0700 From: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com> To: Dewayne Geraghty <dewaynegeraghty@gmail.com> Cc: ports-list freebsd <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Eliminate the use of gettext Message-ID: <CAOgwaMusxGtzN7SwG=3zpXez=m9h1zMoJDYU6A2Ky81SZks3zA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAGnMC6oEFrfUJBTvqztosOsZNR%2Bm6%2BRbkB1g5RwaQLkr4w%2BCyg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAGnMC6oEFrfUJBTvqztosOsZNR%2Bm6%2BRbkB1g5RwaQLkr4w%2BCyg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 5:49 PM, Dewayne Geraghty <dewaynegeraghty@gmail.com > wrote: > I would like to reduce (eliminate) the prevalence of GPLv3 code in the > applications that we build. > > How can we eliminate the use of gettext-runtime in, for example, heimdal > which is widely used? > > We use English only, so internationalisation isn't a concern and the > inclusion of gettext-runtime means that we're introducing GPLv3 code into > applications that are BSD licenced. > > *Regards.* > _______________________________________________ > > I will not be able to supply a link to you now , but from searches in Github ( many ten thousand repositories ) and / or Internet , my understanding is that there are such software that can be used instead of gettext . If you search the following phrase in Google : permissive licensed software instead of gettext you will see that there will be many links about this issue . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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