[OpenAFS-devel] autoconf licensing issues

[Derrick J Brashear]

On 8 Jun 2001, Russ Allbery wrote:

> Derrick J Brashear <shadow@dementia.org> writes:
> > 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.
> 
> missing isn't required for autoconf; it's an automake thing.  (Unless
> autoconf 2.50 now requires it or something?  But that would surprise me.)
> Someone just requested today on the automake list that it acquire the same
> exception as config.{sub,guess}; I expect that to probably happen, as I
> think it was just an oversight.

We have some automake support in progress also, not as far along.

-D