On 10/12/20 7:32 PM, Jack Pearson wrote:
Hello all! Thanks for all the great work you do. I was browsing the GNU Autoconf repo and became rather confused about what the license is for GNU Autoconf. File copyright headers say that the project is licensed under GPLv3+.
That is correct, as documented in the NEWS for autoconf 2.65 (2009).
However, the project website (http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/autoconf) says that it's licensed under GPLv2+.
Thanks for spotting that; I flipped the switch and it is now correctly listing GPLv3+.
I'm inclined to believe the copyright headers, but the main COPYING file is GPLv2. Is this significant?
Autoconf installs both COPYING and COPYINGv3 for ease of use by other projects; but Autoconf itself is under COPYINGv3 (see Readme).
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