Re: The Policy(tm)

[Guido Draheim]

Peter Simons schrieb:
> Russ Allbery writes:
>
>  > You're unwilling to accept macros that are under the
>  > advertising-free BSD license or that are declared to be in the
>  > public domain by the author?
>
> Oh my ... If there ever was a political issue, this would be it. :-|
> Personally, I couldn't care less whether the macros are licensed under
> the GPL, the BSD license, or the communist manifesto. But I have the
> distinct feeling that Richard Stallman will freak out when he realizes
> that there is non-GPL content (gasp!) on www.gnu.org.

No, that's okay as long (a) it is marked specifically and (b) if it
is not gpl-compatible then a link to the license-faq is given :-)=)

gpl-compatibility should be however maintained as requirement for
technical reasons (inclusion in aclocal.m4 and configure output).
..  -- guido

> So far, no submitter ever even mentioned this issue, so I guess that
> the path of least resistance would be to stick to the GPL. Even worse,
> once we permit different licenses, it is IMHO totally unclear how that
> macro would mix with the rest of the Autoconf suite since the GPL
> (under which Autoconf is licensed) does not tolerate another license
> next to it.
>
> Furthermore, having all content under a _single_ license -- and that
> would be the GPL then -- makes the whole thing easier to grasp for
> both the maintainers and the users.
>
>
>  > Also, I assume that you don't mean the GPL proper [...] and you
>  > instead mean GPL plus the Autoconf exception?
>
> Right. I'll fix that ASAP.
>
> Peter
>
>
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