[ Please remove the autoconf-patches list from followups, thanks ] Hello Bruce, all,
* Bruce Korb wrote on Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 06:36:14PM CEST: > > I still think it a _really_good_idea_ to try to get a pre-release > of autoconf today that will auto-install the COPYING file for > most of us folks. Works that way for both of my projects.... > It would require manual intervention to force a different > COPYING file without such a release. I think you mean automake, as that's the autotools program that installs auxiliary files for your project, rather than autoconf. FWIW, I think this is a good idea, for new projects. Note that automake will not overwrite an existing COPYING file, not even with --force; and this is intentional. So you would have to remove the file first. However, the current Automake maintainer has very little time, and my time is rather finite, too. I can work to get branch-1-10 into shape for 1.10.1, but I suppose it will take some days -- one necessary step of which will be to move the Automake code itself to GPLv3+ plus exceptions as the current code: the files which are copied into user projects have this additional clause: # As a special exception to the GNU General Public License, if you # distribute this file as part of a program that contains a # configuration script generated by Autoconf, you may include it under # the same distribution terms that you use for the rest of that program. Can this be left as-is for GPLv3 or does it need to be adjusted? For a full example, see <http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/automake/lib/depcomp?rev=1.61&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=automake> AFAICS the m4 snippets that end up in configure scripts are all-permissive like Autoconf's products, so there is little that would need to be adjusted. And with this work done, I would need someone to do the release for me, or permission to do so, as I do not have maintainer status for Automake (and while I try to help where I can, I don't think I'll have enough time to be a responsible maintainer). Cheers, Ralf