FWIW; I have already touched that configure script more than I want to already but I would favor reverting the enable-copyleft switch: it is particularly wrong with weak copyleft.
We should just remove the internal versions for anything copyleft but let people use the preinstalled packages that are detected (which is the general line of what we are doing in the IP clearance anyways). cheers, Pedro. --- On Mon, 11/21/11, Andrea Pescetti <[email protected]> wrote: ... > Andre Fischer wrote: > > good point but please keep in mind that this is a > temporary workaround. > > Much work is currently being done ... the > --enable-copyleft switch > > will not live for very long. > > Thanks for the information, but since "configure" is > writing a wrong (and potentially confusing) message, and the > fix I sent is trivial and totally harmless, why not just fix > it? > > It takes less to fix it than to discuss it by e-mail, and > people experimenting with the --enable-copyleft switch will > be reassured if configure gives them the proper feedback. > And since I think that the new --enable-x-license (or > whatever it is) section in configure.in will be copied and > pasted from --enable-copyleft, it is probably good to get it > right there even if it is going away soon. > > Regards, > Andrea. >
