If you want to broach the topic again, it might be useful to point them
to the autoconf configuration file exception, since they want to coexist
and still remain planted in the GNU GPL universe;
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/exceptions.en.html
On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 1:05 PM, Jim Apple
http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#can-we-use-doxygen-generated-config-files
Seems to resolve it for now. I'll strip the doxyfile of all those helpful
comments. Maybe one day this will be resolved by the doxygen authors.
Thanks for your help, Todd and Ryan!
On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 10:58
We had the same issue last year when we audited Avro's license
documentation. This is tracked at LEGAL-224 [1] and we did reach out to
doxygen [2]. The doxygen developer, Dimitri clarified that he doesn't
intend for the doxy config files to be GPL, but hasn't clarified the
license to my knowledge.
Apache Impala (incubating) includes a file that includes substantial
portions containing prose that is only licensed, as far as I can tell, in a
GPL way:
