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Re: Licence for gnulib.mk slightly vague
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: Licence for gnulib.mk slightly vague |
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Mon, 26 Sep 2011 23:54:02 +0200 |
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Simon Josefsson wrote:
> > The copy of gnulib.mk in Emacs says:
> >
> > # This file is free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU
> > # General Public License. As a special exception to the GNU General
> > # Public License, this file may be distributed as part of a program
> > # that contains a configuration script generated by Autoconf, under
> > # the same distribution terms as the rest of that program.
> >
> > There's no information about which version of the GPL.
> > m4/gl-comp.m4 seems to have the same issue.
> ...
> I don't recall why we used this particular license here though, anyone?
This wording dates back to this patch:
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2004-08/msg00046.html>,
committed by Paul on 2004-08-12.
Probably this was the common wording found in many other files.
IMO the vagueness about the GPL version does not really matter, because
hardly anyone distributes such a generated Makefile.am separately from a
package with a configure script.
Bruno
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