Re: Q: Using GNU Autoconf/Automake with proprietary software projects

2001-05-20 Thread Ely Levy
As written in the autoconf automake manuals they doesnt' require any special licence to be used they only encourage you to use GPL in general GPL programs doesn't automaticly GPL the files they make Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Sun, 20 May 2001, Shlomi Fish wro

Re: Q: Using GNU Autoconf/Automake with proprietary software projects

2001-05-20 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Well, as long as you don't change any of the autoconf tools - I don't see a reason why can't you.. Of course - before everyone flames me - I'll give few examples of applications that uses just the same way with gcc which is also, under GPL.. 1. Nvidia binary only drivers (compiled with GCC at

Q: Using GNU Autoconf/Automake with proprietary software projects

2001-05-20 Thread Shlomi Fish
As you may well know, GNU Autoconf and Automake are distributed under the GPL, which means that all the autoconf m4 macros and Bournme shell source code is also GPLed. At least from what I could see by examining the files. So, the question is whether it is legally possible to use autoconf for pr