[OpenAFS-devel] autoconf licensing issues

Neulinger, Nathan nneul@umr.edu
Fri, 8 Jun 2001 14:48:36 -0500


I'm not positive, but I thought that the autoconf stuff had a licensing
exception allowing them to be used under other licenses.

-- Nathan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Derrick J Brashear [mailto:shadow@dementia.org]
> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 2:44 PM
> To: openafs-devel@openafs.org
> Subject: [OpenAFS-devel] autoconf licensing issues
> 
> 
> There are some problems with completeing the autoconfization of
> OpenAFS. One particularly troubling one is licensing. OpenAFS must
> obviously continue to be distributed under the IBM public
> license. However, this makes it not possible to distribute some of the
> ancillary files that typically get distributed with 
> autoconf'd packages.
> 
> Do any of you know of autoconf-ized packages distributed under
> non-GPL-compatible licenses?
> 
> -D
> 
> 
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