Ah, sorry, this particular case was not a dual license but GPL+exception: "As a special exception, the Free Software Foundation gives unlimited permission to copy, distribute and modify the configure scripts that are the output of Autoconf. You need not follow the terms of the GNU General Public License when using or distributing such scripts, even though portions of the text of Autoconf appear in them. The GNU General Public License (GPL) does govern all other use of the material that constitutes the Autoconf program."
Thus, if we include these macros in the pocl sources, pocl gets force- licensed to GPL? However, after we generate the build scripts to the .tar.gz and do not include the macro source, the license can be again MIT. Just need to remove those files at that point. Also, I'm not sure if the GPL is transferred from build scripts to sources so it might be that we need to license only the autotools build scripts with GPL at the worst case. On 11/15/2012 11:28 AM, Pekka Jääskeläinen wrote: > On 11/15/2012 11:24 AM, Kalle Raiskila wrote: >> Pocl was started as a MIT-only project, and I jumped in mid-stream, so >> it is not for me to go and change policies. Is there a legal reason why >> MIT-only is chosen? (And why e.g. Free Beer is frowned upon ;)) I > > It doesn't help to license pocl with a dual GPL/MIT license if one > wants to use GPL-only code as a part of pocl. Due to GPL "copyleft", > pocl would then need to be force-licensed to GPL due to the need to use > GPL-parts, as GPL is not MIT-compatible. MIT/BSD is more free than > GPL, that's why it was chosen for pocl. > > The other way around is OK: if the library pocl uses is GPL/BSD/MIT > dual-licensed we just use the MIT/BSD license instead of GPL when using > the lib in pocl, no need to change the pocl license. > -- Pekka ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ pocl-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pocl-devel
