On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 11:49:53PM -0500, Cliff Woolley wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > > Um... how does this not infect the APR tree with the GPL? My > > > understanding is that we can redistribute the *output* of GNU development > > > tools like this, but not the actual tools themselves. > > > > If we can't distribute this file, then we can't use autoconf/libtool. > > Like the file says, we need these files, because we are more portable than > > the GNU tools we rely on. > > I quote from config.guess (config.sub has the same block): > > 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. > > Looks okay to me...
Right! That has always been why we could distribute these scripts. They come from libtool(?), but it still says autconf. No matter, tho, as we *do* use autoconf. Cheers, -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
