On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 11:09:10PM +0000, Thom May wrote: > Right then. So after a fair amount of discussion on IRC, this is hopefully > the solution to all the configuration issues people have been hitting. > The only issue now is that this code is distributed as part of the "data" > part of autoconf. The license for autoconf _appears_ to say that the "data" > section of autoconf (which is defined as stuff that gets put into configure > scripts) is under no restrictions and is freely available to use, modify > and distribute - in other words, exempt from the GPL. The license is pasted below. > Huge thanks to Aaron and Justin for this. (Esp. to Justin for not taking out > a contract on my life).
+1 - works here - we *need* this soon as our tree is broken now. However, I can't commit without the PMC signing off on this first due to the licensing questions. -- justin
