Hi Eric, * Eric Blake wrote on Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:05:38PM CEST: > Ralf Wildenhues writes: > > 1) The Exception does not take into account some types of outputs from > > programs that Autoconf distributes, namely Autotest testsuite scripts > > which are generated in a similar fashion as configure scripts; maybe > > even other current or future script products; and also the output of > > the autoheader, autoupdate, and autoscan programs. > > For that matter, the old GPLv2 exception mentioned "configure scripts" in the > first paragraph, then went on to describe all "data" portions of the Autoconf > source that were copied as Autoconf output in the second paragraph (autotest > certainly counts as Autoconf output, since autom4te is one of the Autoconf > programs). So the original exception was already ambiguous on whether > autotest > was covered by the exemption, and a cleanup in this area will be a nice > clarification of our intent.
Indeed. > > 3) It is unclear whether configure scripts which fall under this > > Exception really can be treated as they could with the old GPLv3 > > exception clause. > > s/GPLv3/GPLv2/ Thanks! Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
