[OpenAFS-devel] autoconf licensing issues

[Neulinger, Nathan]

Hmm... I'd bet that the lack of a similar exception in missing is probably
just an oversight. Would probably be worth firing off a note to the autoconf
guys asking them if they'd adjust the license text in there.

-- Nathan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Derrick J Brashear [mailto:shadow@dementia.org]
> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 3:02 PM
> To: openafs-devel@openafs.org
> Subject: RE: [OpenAFS-devel] autoconf licensing issues
> 
> 
> On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Neulinger, Nathan wrote:
> 
> > Of the other files that might be used with configure, 
> `config.h.in' is under
> > whatever copyright you use for your `configure.ac'. `config.sub' and
> > `config.guess' have an exception to the GPL when they are 
> used with an
> > Autoconf-generated configure script, which permits you to 
> distribute them
> > under the same terms as the rest of your package. 
> `install-sh' is from the X
> > Consortium and is not copyrighted.
> 
> Ok. That leaves only "missing", really, which I guess I can 
> deal with by
> other ways. It was only really "missing" and config.{sub,guess} I was
> worried about.
> 
> -D
> 
> 
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