On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Many projects using autoconf are not distributed according to GPL and have > no interest in becoming so. For example, if xntp required a proprietary > clock driver and used gnulib modules, then the binary could not be > distributed unless that proprietary clock driver is also distributed in > relinkable form so an arbitrary user could re-link xntp. Sure, but in this case the suggestion was to use their m4 macros for the extended long long tests, which I would assume means only your autoconf bits are "infected". In fact, looking at that particular test, it looks like BSD-with-advertise: http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob;f=m4/longlong.m4;h=15bf9dacadb85b8802381eafddeb9fc6556c067d;hb=90ed634eb36631a208dc13277e97fbaeba20eac3 -- Benjamin Reed a.k.a. Ranger Rick Fink, KDE, and Mac OS X development http://www.racoonfink.com/ _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
