Re: pthreads

[John W. Eaton]

On 30-Jan-2008, Stefan Bienert wrote:

| now I got a last question to put the whole licensing-issue to an end.
| If we use the autoconf stuff, with macros and all, internaly for the 
| development process (access to this resource only via private accounts) 
| but only include the configure script and makefiles in the distributed 
| package (making the software accessible to the public), it should be OK 
| to use our own license on the project. Right or not?

Whether it impacts licensing or not, I think it's rather unfriendly to
ship only the generated configure script and not the sources that
generated it.  It makes modifying the configure script difficult.

jwe