Re: Does using automake+autoconf require my project to be GPL'ed?

2009-03-09 Thread Alan Manuel Gloria
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 2:58 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >> From what I could glean, it's not necessary, provided I write my own >> "missing.sh".  The other files auto-produced by `automake --foreign >> --add-missing' seem to have a clause saying something about distributing >> them under a differe

Re: Does using automake+autoconf require my project to be GPL'ed?

2009-03-09 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* NightStrike wrote on Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 08:37:12PM CET: > On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Ralf Wildenhues > wrote: > > We are in the process of moving to GPLv3+ plus exceptions.  The > > lawyerese process for rewriting the exception specification is not fully > > done yet, which is why Autoco

Re: Does using automake+autoconf require my project to be GPL'ed?

2009-03-09 Thread NightStrike
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > We are in the process of moving to GPLv3+ plus exceptions.  The > lawyerese process for rewriting the exception specification is not fully > done yet, which is why Autoconf 1.10 has been released with GPLv2+ plus Has progress been made, or

time frame for 1.11 (was: automake/535: Extract correct man section from files in MAN_MANS)

2009-03-09 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Peter, * Peter Breitenlohner wrote on Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 10:04:28AM CET: > BTW: any idea about the schedule for for 1-11? Not in the time frame sense, but this is more or less what I would like to see merged in 1.11: the vala branch, the silent branch, and the parallel-tests branch. The lat

Re: Does using automake+autoconf require my project to be GPL'ed?

2009-03-09 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello, * almkglor wrote on Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 02:45:09PM CET: > > I'm building an open-source project that is currently under a permissive MIT > license. Since the project is getting complex, I'm thinking of using > Automake+Autoconf to help handle portability. Great! > What I'd like to know

Re: Does using automake+autoconf require my project to be GPL'ed?

2009-03-09 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, almkglor wrote: I'm building an open-source project that is currently under a permissive MIT license. Since the project is getting complex, I'm thinking of using Automake+Autoconf to help handle portability. What I'd like to know is, does using Automake+Autoconf require me

Re: Does using automake+autoconf require my project to be GPL'ed?

2009-03-09 Thread Alan Manuel Gloria
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Monday 2009-03-09 14:45, almkglor wrote: > > > >What I'd like to know is, does using Automake+Autoconf require me to license > >distributions built using them with the GPL? > >[...] > >While GPL is OK by me, it might not be as popular a

Re: Does using automake+autoconf require my project to be GPL'ed?

2009-03-09 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Monday 2009-03-09 14:45, almkglor wrote: > >What I'd like to know is, does using Automake+Autoconf require me to license >distributions built using them with the GPL? >[...] >While GPL is OK by me, it might not be as popular among other developers. ^^ I could list apache-httpd2 as an example t

Does using automake+autoconf require my project to be GPL'ed?

2009-03-09 Thread almkglor
Hello world, I'm building an open-source project that is currently under a permissive MIT license. Since the project is getting complex, I'm thinking of using Automake+Autoconf to help handle portability. What I'd like to know is, does using Automake+Autoconf require me to license distributions