Re: gsettings.m4 copyright

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Yuuki Harano <masm+emacs@masm11.me>,  luangruo@yahoo.com,
>  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2022 11:03:13 -0500
> 
> >> > Jeff and Yuuki, would you please tell us how you got this file and who
> >> > has the copyright to its code?
> >> I copied /usr/share/aclocal/gsettings.m4 in my PC.
> > That file is installed when you install Glib, so you basically copied
> > it from Glib without their permission.
> 
> Since it's under the LGPL we do have their permission.

I guess you mean we don't _need_ their permission.

Except that in Emacs (and other projects that care about attribution
and copyright assignments), we do.

> > At this point, I think we should consider removing the file and
> > rewriting the tests it performs in configure.ac, in as different a
> > form from gsettings.m4 as possible.  Is that feasible?
> 
> Is there a specific problem with the file being LGPL?

That's not the problem I'm worried about.