On Monday 06 July 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > But that's what /you/ want to do, not me. Me, I'll just apply a patch to > > the configure script, directly. > > And you'll be violating the GPL (unless you're talking about a > BSD-style-licensed software or configure.ac is explicitly marked with > special permissions). The FSF seems to disagree with that. http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/Distributing.html#Distributing $ sed -ne '4,8 p' configure # this one was generated by autoconf 2.63 # # Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, # 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. # This configure script is free software; the Free Software Foundation # gives unlimited permission to copy, distribute and modify it. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list