Kamil Dudka <kdu...@redhat.com> writes: > would it be possible to use autoconf 2.69+ for creating the new releases > of elinks in order to support the ARM 64 bit CPU architecture (aarch64)?
I'm not sure it's permitted under the GPLv2 license of configure.in. The license requires that source files are distributed under GPLv2. I think /usr/share/autoconf/autoconf/general.m4 may be a source file of the resulting configure script, but in Autoconf 2.69, that file is under GPLv3-or-later + Autoconf Configure Script Exception v3. The exception grants permission to propagate the configure script, but not to distribute general.m4 itself under GPLv2. I don't see any license problems with upgrading just config.guess and config.sub. The patch linked from https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=925306 does not change the GPLv2-or-later license of those files. Even if we upgraded to the 2013-02-12 versions, which are under GPLv3-or-later, it seems the "special exception" would allow us to distribute them under GPLv2 as part of ELinks, which is licensed under GPLv2 and contains a configure script generated by Autoconf. They don't say it has to be the latest version of Autoconf.
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