-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Benjamin Reed on 4/9/2008 2:00 PM: | 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 BSD-with-advertise isn't the right term; but yes, in general, most of the .m4 files in gnulib are given an all-permissive license, rather than GPL, because they are only used in building configure and not in the resulting binary (http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#License-Notices-for-Other-Files). ~ So it technically possible to borrow from gnulib .m4 files if you then reimplement the .h and .c portions of modules with licensing better suited to your non-GPL project. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake ebb9@xxxxxxx -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkf9e5oACgkQ84KuGfSFAYBczACgiy56IpwRlwMRM2UhUNM2iK8m T5IAoJZBpgJfgLsV1zii5rzjhZWk1HsE =zuJo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
