Quoting Bas Wijnen (2016-03-08 19:23:18) > On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 03:12:10PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> Oh - I just discovered that this _is_ covered by Policy §4.13 >> already. > > Reading that again, I see that it says code copies are acceptable if > the code is meant to be used that way (with GNU autotools as an > example in the footnote). For convenience, I quoted the whole thing > below. > > I think consensus has changed on this issue: this practically means > "run configure as shipped by upstream". As far as I know, we now > recommend regenerating everything from source (configure.ac, > Makefile.am). Should this be changed in policy? I do not interpret it like that. I interpret it as "redistribute upstream source as-is when it includes code copies of autotools, because that code is meant to be included with all projects using it". I do not read into it that Policy dictates whether to then trust those pieces of code, nor (as some do) to skip documenting copyright and licensing for those files. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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