Re: Bug#191717: automake1.6: install-sh licensing nightmare?

2003-05-07 Thread Branden Robinson
On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 11:21:18PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: Package: automake1.6 Version: 1.6.3-5 Severity: serious I noticed this from a discussion in #148412 about gimp's licensing) [snip standard MIT/X11 copyright notice and license] Not only does automake not reproduce these

Re: Bug#191717: automake1.6: install-sh licensing nightmare?

2003-05-07 Thread Eric Dorland
I've already contacted upstream privately about this and he is all over it. They will either rewrite it from scratch, or perhaps update the licensing terms since it seems at one point install.sh was distributed later on in X11R6 without these licensing terms. I'll keep you posted. * Branden

Re: Bug#191717: automake1.6: install-sh licensing nightmare?

2003-05-07 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Wednesday, May 7, 2003, at 03:53 AM, Branden Robinson wrote: Is your argument that because of the nature of GNU automake, it might be causing our users to inadvertently infringe MIT's copyright? Yes, that's the argument. See the first paragraph under the quoted material, which reads in

Re: Bug#191717: automake1.6: install-sh licensing nightmare?

2003-05-07 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 01:15:41PM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: Yes, that's the argument. See the first paragraph under the quoted material, which reads in part: ...but it also automatically installs a copy of install-sh into automake-using packages when --add-missing is used.

Bug#191717: automake1.6: install-sh licensing nightmare?

2003-05-02 Thread Matt Zimmerman
Package: automake1.6 Version: 1.6.3-5 Severity: serious I noticed this from a discussion in #148412 about gimp's licensing) mizar:[~] head -16 /usr/share/automake-1.6/install-sh #!/bin/sh # # install - install a program, script, or datafile # This comes from X11R5 (mit/util/scripts/install.sh).