Hello Bruce, Deborah, * Bruce Korb wrote on Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 09:59:17PM CET: > On Jan 28, 2008 12:37 PM, Deborah Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is Deborah and I maintain the Free Software Directory. I was just > > adding the newest version of Autoconf. As part of that process, I always > > look at the licenses.
Are you speaking about Autogen or Autoconf? > > The latest version of Autoconf comes with GPLv2, but some of the files > > have a GPLv3 or later notice on them. The last version of Auotconf was > > licensed with v3 or later, so I'm just checking in to see if you > > included GPLv2 rather GPLv3 in the COPYING file by mistake. The latest stable Autoconf release is GPLv2+. As is the latest Automake release. The latest Automake release, 1.10.1, installs a GPLv3 COPYING file into a project, when automake --add-missing is run, but an existing COPYING file is never replaced with this, not even if --force is added. > It is supposed to be GPLv3+, but I confess that I am completely lazy > about reading the copied in "COPYING" file. I distribute whatever it is > that "automake --add-missing" puts in there. It ought to be defaulting > to GPLv3 and, perhaps, have an option for installing the old variation. > I wouldn't need the option, but nonetheless.... If somebody wants such an option, they should speak up (best including a patch... ;-) Cheers, Ralf
