Re: RFC: proposed GPLv3 license exception draft

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Eric,

* Eric Blake wrote on Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:05:38PM CEST:
> Ralf Wildenhues writes:
> > 1) The Exception does not take into account some types of outputs from
> > programs that Autoconf distributes, namely Autotest testsuite scripts
> > which are generated in a similar fashion as configure scripts; maybe
> > even other current or future script products; and also the output of
> > the autoheader, autoupdate, and autoscan programs.
> 
> For that matter, the old GPLv2 exception mentioned "configure scripts" in the 
> first paragraph, then went on to describe all "data" portions of the Autoconf 
> source that were copied as Autoconf output in the second paragraph (autotest 
> certainly counts as Autoconf output, since autom4te is one of the Autoconf 
> programs).  So the original exception was already ambiguous on whether 
> autotest 
> was covered by the exemption, and a cleanup in this area will be a nice 
> clarification of our intent.

Indeed.

> > 3) It is unclear whether configure scripts which fall under this
> > Exception really can be treated as they could with the old GPLv3
> > exception clause.
> 
> s/GPLv3/GPLv2/

Thanks!

Cheers,
Ralf