On 05.02.2010 02:15, Graham Leggett wrote:
On 04 Feb 2010, at 6:27 PM, Nick Kew wrote:
Since noone else has replied yet, I'll Cc: this to legal.
This appears to be part of expat, which APR merely bundles.
Your primary port of call should presumably be the expat
developers. Having said that, it is indeed included in
APR distributions from Apache, so it looks like an issue
for us. 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).
From an APR point of view, I've long argued that we should
stop bundling third-party libraries that would be better
treated as dependencies. We may now have yet another reason
to do so!
FWIW, it should also be straightforward to remove the file
and (at worst) substitute stubs for anything that's required.
The worst it'll do is make the build less robust against
an incomplete toolchain.
Isn't "missing" part of automake?
I suspect "missing" is subject to the license exceptions that allow
automake to be used on non-GPL code. This might be a bug in automake
itself (incorrect license conditions being embedded in files).
The version contained in apr-util expat is old and doesn't contain the
exception. Recent versions of the file "missing", e.g. the one
distributes with automake-1.10.2 does contain the addition
# As a special exception to the GNU General Public License, if you
# distribute this file as part of a program that contains a
# configuration script generated by Autoconf, you may include it under
# the same distribution terms that you use for the rest of that program.
in the file header.
Regards,
Rainer
