Re: Portable type definitions for tools

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 01:26:28PM +0100, Love H?rnquist ?strand wrote:
>
> 11 sep 2008 kl. 13.06 skrev Joerg Sonnenberger:
>
>> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:13:59AM +1000, Luke Mewburn wrote:
>>> I see that autoconf 2.63 is now available, and has used GPLv3 since  
>>> 2.62.
>>> There's no entry in the NEWS file stating when the license changed;
>>> I had to trawl through the git repository to determine this.
>
>
> It was in the email announcement:
>
> This version of Autoconf uses GPLv2+ plus an exception for its installed
> executables, as described in COPYING; the exception covers the
> implications of including an autoconf-generated script in your project.
> Meanwhile, several source files within the Autoconf project are under
> GPLv3+, as described in COPYINGv3; these files are used for building
> and installing Autoconf, but are not present in the installed
> programs.  The entire Autoconf project will move to GPLv3+ when the
> exception statements have been reformulated in terms of the Additional
> Permissions as described in section 7 of GPLv3.

It is even more lovely. So configure.ac, cfg.mk and most of the
Makefiles are covered by GPLv3. The ChangeLog and README entry is a
completely mess. *sigh*

I'm wondering whether we shouldn't just include the macros and ignore
2.60+ for now.

Comments on that?

Joerg