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

Bill Northcott w.northcott at unsw.edu.au
Sun Jan 29 02:04:58 CET 2006

On 29/01/2006, at 5:48 AM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

Yes, but your conclusion is wrong. Python uses autoconf, but not aclocal/automake. The generated configure is explicitly not covered by the GPL;

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.

Bill Northcott

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