Hi, On Tue, 4 Jun 2013 16:57:04 -0700 Frerich Raabe <ra...@froglogic.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > one of the projects I'm working on requires that the build system can be > bootstrapped, i.e. when unpacking a source tarball you run 'configure' which > is actually a shell script which first runs 'make' to build the actual > (proprietary) build tool - which has no dependencies other than a C++ > compiler and a C++ library - and then it runs the build tool. So even though > our software has a significant number of external dependencies (the Qt > libraries, for instance), the build tool itself is shipped with the sources, > and it builds on a wide range of platforms. Whether this design is sensible > or not is a different discussion, I'd rather not get dragged into discussing > that. :-) > > I considered porting this project to CMake, and one of the issues which came > up is that it requires customers to install CMake to build from sources - and > CMake may (or may not?) be available on all the platforms we would like to > support. So the question came up: is it feasible (and legally possible, as > far as the license goes) to ship a (subset?) of CMake so that we can build > CMake ourselves? Did anybody do this already? It is legally possible because CMake is under the modified BSD licence: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses which is a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permissive_free_software_licence , and allows almost every use. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ UNIX Fortune Cookies - http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/fortunes/ Selina: Toothpicks? Have you blokes been watching too much Sesame Street? Warrior #1: Why, of course! Every mighty Klingon warrior has watched Sesame Street. — http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/Selina-Mandrake/ Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . -- Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
