Better yet, since everyone and their grandmother can find them on github, just don’t touch them. Since you don’t need them, you’ll never have to modify them, which means you’ll never have to publish a derivative work of them.
Don’t believe me? Ask a patent/copyright attorney with experience at a software company. On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 6:21 PM 'Adam Cozzette' via Protocol Buffers < protobuf@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Those are used for the autotools build. If you're concerned about them you > could just delete them all from your local repo and build with CMake or > Bazel instead. > > On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 3:34 PM hons...@gmail.com <honshe...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi Guys, >> I am trying to get the minimum set of protobuf runtime code that can be >> built. >> Does anyone know what the M4 is doing? is it possible to remove all the >> m4 files? >> >> The GNU licences maybe a trouble for my project and it is used in the >> m4s... >> >> Thanks alot >> Hong >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Protocol Buffers" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to protobuf+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/protobuf/49239694-6f6a-4ab4-a89b-fae38e2b1b4cn%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/protobuf/49239694-6f6a-4ab4-a89b-fae38e2b1b4cn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Protocol Buffers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to protobuf+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/protobuf/CADqAXr7Bt2k15pkiHzh%3DrLB3791oANeeBW8da0Ltv26bzWDygQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/protobuf/CADqAXr7Bt2k15pkiHzh%3DrLB3791oANeeBW8da0Ltv26bzWDygQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Protocol Buffers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to protobuf+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/protobuf/CAApk-CAoUWEb7gVHMJ85nLUMmrvmMUUWAKKn1%2BVqGqoF3fw2Pg%40mail.gmail.com.
