[Python-Dev] (libffi) Re: Copyright issue (original) (raw)

Tom Tromey tromey at redhat.com
Sat Jan 28 01:04:25 CET 2006

"Giovanni" == Giovanni Bajo <rasky at develer.com> writes:

Giovanni> This would be a new interpretation of the license. The whole Giovanni> autotools chain is GPL and it is used on way too many Giovanni> programs which are not GPL. They're so many I won't even Giovanni> mention one. Anyway, IANAL, so if you're really concerned Giovanni> you can mail the FSF and ask clarifications.

No, Martin is correct about this. The output of autoconf is explicitly not under the GPL, by design. This is also true for the m4 macros from automake -- again, an explicit decision.

The problem is, some other projects have not been so careful.

Tom

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