Re: configure.ac, Makefile.am question

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> If it's _his_ source code (and assuming that _he_ licensed it GPL), he can 
> distribute whatever set of files he chooses.  The restriction applies for 
> files that he gets from someone else.

If no one else is allowed to distribute the package, then what's the 
point of applying GPL at all?  I am not so sure that your claim is 
true since if the original package does not meet the requirements of 
GPL, then the package can't be properly licensed via GPL.  A pig is 
still a pig regardless of how you paint it.

I find the practice of stripping these files to be particularly 
abhorrent so I would not be able to offer any technical support for 
such an activity.

OS distribution package maintainers are likely to reject the software 
package as being a candidate for distribution since their hands are 
tied if anything is wrong.

Bob
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