Re: GNU config (config.sub/guess) is now GPLv3 with additional permission
On Sat, 01 Jun 2013, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> * Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>, 2013-05-31, 18:44:
> >As a special exception to the GNU General Public License, if you
> >distribute this file as part of a program that contains a
> >configuration script generated by Autoconf, you may include it
> >under the same distribution terms that you use for the rest of
> >that program.
>
> So I can distribute this file under the terms of GPLv2, but only if
> $something. What about §6 of said license? (“You may not impose any
> further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights
> granted herein.”)
Well, the $something is "you don't change the build system to stop using
autoconf while still retaining config.sub or config.guess".
I am not sure it matters at all (clearly upstream seems to think that it
should/might), but I'd be very hard pressed to think that $something is
enough to be a problem for GPLv2.
--
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them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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