William A. Rowe Jr. wrote:
On 2/4/2010 5:58 PM, Nick Kew wrote:
On 4 Feb 2010, at 21:03, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
]] Nick Kew
| I don't know if it comes under any of the FSF's exceptions for the
| core toolchain (as in, compiling with gcc and linking glibc doesn't
| bring you under GPL).
It's a shell script. It's hardly linked into expat or apr-util and
there's no way it can make the generated binaries fall under the GPL.
Yes, I know it's a shell script.
The point is, we *are* distributing it!
We aren't disagreeing; that is the point of the RAT tool, to catch things
like this which we weren't paying attention to, once they had been checked
out of subversion *and then* packaged for release. It would be great for
that tool to be more widely used by existing projects, not simply the
incubating ones :)
And yes, it makes a great argument against autocrap at the ASF;
lol.. +1
The problem I see with this though is that GNU Make tends to be an easy
defacto standard to depend on when creating a portable replacement for
auto*. Which imho really more or less defeats the purpose of caring at
all. (I'm not saying don't care, but to keep it in perspective..)
./C
