[Python-Dev] DRAFT: python-dev Summary for 2006-01-01 through 2006-01-15 (original) (raw)

John J Lee jjl at pobox.com
Thu Jan 26 22:21:28 CET 2006

On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Thomas Heller wrote: [...]

As I said in the other thread (where the discussion should probably be continued anyway):

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-January/060113.html only aclocal.m4 isn't clear to me about the license. Anyway, it could be that this file isn't needed after all - I don't know enough about the GNU toolchain to be sure. Can anyone comment on this?

From 'info autoconf':

| The Autoconf macros are defined in several files. Some of the files | are distributed with Autoconf; autoconf' reads them first. Then it_ | _looks for the optional file acsite.m4' in the directory that contains | the distributed Autoconf macro files, and for the optional file | `aclocal.m4' in the current directory. Those files can contain your | site's or the package's own Autoconf macro definitions (*note Writing [...]

So, I assume aclocal.m4 is under the same license as the rest of the libffi you're using.

John

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