Gettext clone or alternative under permissive license (non-copyleft)?
c, gettext
Solution
NetBSD maintains a gettext-compatible library, under BSD license.
see http://wiki.netbsd.org/projects/project/libintl/ it needs development, so anything that is missing you could develop and contribute :)
This should also be mostly compatible with the 3rd party gettext tools and utilities, if you can get them to compile from source against libintl.
Problem
At the moment I am trying to find a gettext alternative with comparable tool support. However, the library itself needs to be under a permissive license, so that the binaries can be linked statically and I need not release the object files along with the binary as the LGPL stipulates. In short: one of the so-called permissive licenses (BSD, MIT, zlib/libpng, X11 etc ...) would suit me fine, but I haven't been able to find an alternative under permissive license. Any pointers? Yes, I have seen and read the one answer to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/943058 and downvoted it. The question clearly was for non-copyleft, too. And the LGPL is a copyleft license, even if it is more permissive compared to the GPL.