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Re: Installing COPYING whatever the previous `value'
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Alexandre Duret-Lutz |
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Re: Installing COPYING whatever the previous `value' |
Date: |
11 Oct 2002 23:19:19 +0200 |
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>>> "Ralf" == Ralf Corsepius <address@hidden> writes:
Ralf> Am Fre, 2002-10-11 um 10.20 schrieb Akim Demaille:
>>
>> I'm not sure Automake is entitled, even with --force, to override
>> COPYING. I just happen to run autoreconf -fvi on Flex to upgrade it,
>> and Automake replaced the BSD license with the GPL...
Ralf> I know you won't like this answer, but I presume you know the default
Ralf> mode of automake is --gnu. So if flex comes under a BSD-License it is
Ralf> not a gnu package in the automake --gnu sense, and therefore should use
Ralf> AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS=foreign rsp. AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign]).
(Surprisingly it seems the GNU Standards don't require the use
of a GNU License, but that's not the point.)
Ralf> Besides this, I also think overriding COPYING is a bad
Ralf> idea, even in gnu mode, because package authors might not
Ralf> want to have their COPYING overriden by a "later GPL".
I too think it's not Automake's job to select the package's license.
How about transfering this responsability to autolib?
--
Alexandre Duret-Lutz
- Installing COPYING whatever the previous `value', Akim Demaille, 2002/10/11
- Re: Installing COPYING whatever the previous `value', Ralf Corsepius, 2002/10/11
- Re: Installing COPYING whatever the previous `value',
Alexandre Duret-Lutz <=
- Re: Installing COPYING whatever the previous `value', Akim Demaille, 2002/10/14
- Re: Installing COPYING whatever the previous `value', Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2002/10/14
- Re: Installing COPYING whatever the previous `value', Akim Demaille, 2002/10/14
- Re: Installing COPYING whatever the previous `value', Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2002/10/14
- Re: Installing COPYING whatever the previous `value', Akim Demaille, 2002/10/18
- on autolib, --add-missing, and aclocal (Was: Re: Installing COPYING whatever the previous `value'), Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2002/10/18
- Re: on autolib, --add-missing, and aclocal (Was: Re: Installing COPYINGwhatever the previous `value'), Bonzini, 2002/10/19
- Re: on autolib, --add-missing, and aclocal (Was: Re: Installing COPYINGwhatever the previous `value'), Bonzini, 2002/10/19
- Re: on autolib, --add-missing, and aclocal (Was: Re: Installing COPYINGwhatever the previous `value'), Bonzini, 2002/10/19