On Friday 29 July 2011, Brad King wrote: > On 07/18/2011 03:43 PM, Alexander Neundorf wrote: ... > > Another question: the cmake.m4 is based on the m4-file for pkgconfig, > > which has the GPL header at the top. So, the cmake.m4 still has that > > header at the top. > > Is this a problem ? > > Yes. We at least need to distribute the GPL "COPYING" file with it. In > the source tree the two files would need to appear together in a directory > separate from any other files. > > > I don't know how the license of a file, which is installed by cmake, but > > not compiled-in nor used by cmake itself influences cmake. > > CMake doesn't even invoke the code in that file so the license does not > propagate. However I'm hesitant to distribute anything with CMake that > is not compatible with our main license. It will be a PITA to document > the licensing situation properly.
Ok. I'll try to find somebody who "speaks" autoconf/m4 to help me with this and write a BSD-licensed file from scratch. Or do you know somebody who is good at this ? Alex _______________________________________________ cmake-developers mailing list cmake-developers@cmake.org http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers
