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
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
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
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