Re: Support script exceptions

2010-06-22 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Brett Smith wrote on Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 03:26:19PM CEST: > On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 19:33 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > These scripts are all maintained in the Automake source tree; the > > canonical upstream for symlink-tree is the GCC source tree. > > Understood. I should explain: the reas

Re: Support script exceptions

2010-06-22 Thread Brett Smith
On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 19:33 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > First, the scripts we're talking about are: > > > > * compile > > * depcomp > > * elisp-comp > > * mdate-sh > > * missing > > * py-compile > > * symlink-tree > > * ylwrap > > These scripts are all maintained in the Automake source tree

Re: Support script exceptions

2010-06-22 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 06/21/2010 07:33 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > After reviewing the intended uses of these scripts, and their licensing > history, we believe that an exception is not really necessary to allow > proprietary software developers to use the scripts in the ways we expect > them to. Thus, to kee

Re: Support script exceptions

2010-06-21 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Brett, * Brett Smith wrote on Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 04:22:28PM CEST: > RMS and I have been looking at some of the GNU programs that are still > on old licenses with exceptions, and figuring out whether and how they > should be updated. We had some unique ideas about some of the support > script

Support script exceptions

2010-06-21 Thread Brett Smith
Hi everyone, RMS and I have been looking at some of the GNU programs that are still on old licenses with exceptions, and figuring out whether and how they should be updated. We had some unique ideas about some of the support scripts that a lot of GNU packages use, and we wanted to check with you