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

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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