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[technology-pmc] [CQ 20929] libacl
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http://dev.eclipse.org/ipzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20929
--- Comment #4 from Michael Pöhnl <michael.poehnl@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 2019-10-16 03:47:39 ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> I don't beleive that this CQ is required.
>
> > The acl API is part of a POSIX extension that many operating systems
> > implement. What license this then has depends on the operating system. E.g.
> > on QNX it comes with the operating system in the C library, so I guess there
> > is no special open source question there. On Ubuntu it comes as an
> > additional package with a LGPL license.
>
> I believe that we can, in both cases, assert that the content is part of the
> operating system.
I would say yes, this is true for all the relevant operating systems
>
> > We put the acl.h header of the Ubuntu version to our repository, just for
> > documentation.
>
> If there's no technical requirement to include the header file in the
> repository, it should not be included. Perhaps a notation in the NOTICES file
> is sufficient?
>
> What documentation requirement is satisfied by including this file?
>
Our open source officer thought this is a good idea. But maybe this is too
much. He also would remove the header file. We have the hint already in the
NOTICE file. We came to the conclusion that this is sufficient
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