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Re: Automake and GPLv3
From: |
Bernd Jendrissek |
Subject: |
Re: Automake and GPLv3 |
Date: |
Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:53:14 +0200 |
On 8/30/07, Bruce Korb <address@hidden> wrote:
> Something fuzzily along the lines that all code emitted by these tools
> are, by that action alone, released to the public domain with no licensing
> requirements or constraints whatever? After all, they are sufficiently
> convoluted that I certainly cannot construe any constructive purpose for
> the text, outside of the explicit configure/make process for a specific
> project.
> Understanding that generated stuff comes as close to understanding
> hieroglyphics as I ever want to get. In other words, it should not need
> strong protections. :)
/# su - evil
~evil$ for i in AC_CHECK_DECLS AC_PROG_CC AC_CONFIG_FILES ...; do
> echo AC_INIT(...)\n$i(??magic??) >configure.ac
> autoconf
> echo "AC_DEFUN($i, [`diff -u configure.null configure |grep ^+ |sed
> s/^.//`])" |sed 's/??magic??/$1/g' >evillib/$i.m4
>done
~evil$ tar -czf autoconf-under-eula.tar.gz evillib/