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Re: gcovr - Suitable for Cygwin?


On Jun  6 10:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jun  4 19:10, David Stacey wrote:
> > I've been using gcovr to generate coverage reports, and I'd be happy to
> > maintain this for Cygwin. Before submitting a package, I'd be grateful if
> > someone could check the licence [1].
> > 
> > It's a fairly standard 3-clause BSD affair, but with the caveat that 'the
> > U.S. Government retains certain rights in this software.' It isn't clear (to
> > me, at least) what rights are being referred to. Would such a clause
> > prohibit its inclusion in Cygwin?
> > 
> > Note that gcovr isn't available for Fedora or CentOS, although this could be
> > because it hasn't been packaged for these distros, rather than any
> > incompatibility in the licence. It is, however, available for Debian and
> > Ubuntu [2].
> > 
> > Any thoughts on its suitability for Cygwin?
> 
> Let me ask somebody who knows this better than me...

Ok, nothing to worry about.  Please go ahead if you like.


Thanks,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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