Re: Automake and GPLv3

2007-09-04 Thread Brett Smith
On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 11:13:55PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > Like I said, we would like to update the text if possible, just to bring > > the vocabulary up-to-date if nothing else. I just sent a mail to gnu-prog > > that has more details about why the update process is taking longer than w

Re: Automake and GPLv3

2007-08-30 Thread Bernd Jendrissek
On 8/30/07, Bruce Korb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Something fuzzily along the lines that all code emitted by these tools > are, by that action alone, released to the public domain with no licensing > requirements or constraints whatever? After all, they are sufficiently > convoluted that I certa

Re: Automake and GPLv3

2007-08-30 Thread Harlan Stenn
Eric, Sounds good - thanks very much! H

Re: Automake and GPLv3

2007-08-30 Thread Harlan Stenn
This is the first I've seen on this thread. I have heard that GPLv3 is viral/invasive. The short question I have is: If automake/autoconf use GPLv3, will I be able to use them for packages that are NOT GPLv3? IE, if GPLv3 is viral/invasive, I cannot use software covered by GPLv3 for most of t

Re: Automake and GPLv3

2007-08-30 Thread Bruce Korb
On 8/29/07, Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > The short question I have is: > > > > If automake/autoconf use GPLv3, will I be able to use them for packages > > that are NOT GPLv3? > > The goal is YES. Remember, with autoconf 2.61 and automake 1.10, bo

Re: Automake and GPLv3

2007-08-29 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Harlan Stenn on 8/29/2007 8:59 PM: > This is the first I've seen on this thread. > > I have heard that GPLv3 is viral/invasive. No more so than GPLv2 was, and hopefully less so. That was part of the reason GPLv3 went through such a long

Re: Automake and GPLv3

2007-08-29 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Ralf Wildenhues on 8/29/2007 3:13 PM: > Hello Brett, > > Thanks for your reply. Likewise. > > * Brett Smith wrote on Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 09:47:18PM CEST: > Not the only one, but for another stable release (1.10.1), I don't think > muc

Re: Automake and GPLv3

2007-08-29 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Brett, Thanks for your reply. * Brett Smith wrote on Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 09:47:18PM CEST: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 08:47:45PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > Any news on this licensing issue in Automake yet, or is it even one > > that needs any more work at all? > > Like I said, we wou

Re: Automake and GPLv3

2007-08-27 Thread Brett Smith
On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 08:47:45PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Any news on this licensing issue in Automake yet, or is it even one > that needs any more work at all? Like I said, we would like to update the text if possible, just to bring the vocabulary up-to-date if nothing else. I just sent

Re: Automake and GPLv3

2007-08-17 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Brett, [ http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2007-07/msg5.html ] * Brett Smith wrote on Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 04:56:23PM CEST: > On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 07:49:53PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > However, the current Automake maintainer has very little time, and my > > t

Re: Automake and GPLv3 (was: GNU uploads frozen for GPLv3 release)

2007-07-09 Thread Brett Smith
On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 07:49:53PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > However, the current Automake maintainer has very little time, and my > time is rather finite, too. I can work to get branch-1-10 into shape > for 1.10.1, but I suppose it will take some days -- one necessary step > of which will b

Automake and GPLv3 (was: GNU uploads frozen for GPLv3 release)

2007-06-30 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
[ Please remove the autoconf-patches list from followups, thanks ] Hello Bruce, all, * Bruce Korb wrote on Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 06:36:14PM CEST: > > I still think it a _really_good_idea_ to try to get a pre-release > of autoconf today that will auto-install the COPYING file for > most of us folk