Bill Northcott wrote: > What makes you think that? I can see no such concession in the > autoconf source distribution. A configure script is built up from lots > of code fragments out of the autoconf and automake M4 files, and would > clearly be covered by GPL.
No. As I just said in the other mail: The generated configure contains the explicit permission: # Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. # This configure script is free software; the Free Software Foundation # gives unlimited permission to copy, distribute and modify it. If you look at the autoconf sources, you will find various such blocks (e.g. in lib/autoconf/general.m4): # 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. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com