On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 21:18 -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 9:07 PM, Havoc Pennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > What about a libvala? I guess vala is supposed to have this property > > that it doesn't create dependencies in distributed tarballs, but that > > design goal has brought us autoconf and libtool in the past... not > > sure I'm sold on it. > > Another nail in the no-libvala idea's coffin is that it seems to me[1] > it's a violation of the GPL to distribute code that doesn't build > using the "preferred form of the work for making modifications to it" > (GPL sec 3). In other words, generated .c files are no different from > .jars and the like, and free OS vendors should not allow software > which includes them. > > [1] IANAL etc.
Thats obviously not the case Are you saying Yacc/Bison and lex/flex source files which generate c files are also incompatible with GPL? if so a whole load of software is in violation (including gcc) jamie _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
