Re: gcovr - Suitable for Cygwin?

[David Stacey <drstacey at tiscali dot co dot uk>]

On 06/06/16 20:18, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 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.


Thank you for checking. I'll prepare a package later this week.

Dave.