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Re: Licensing of Autoconf
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Eric Blake |
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Re: Licensing of Autoconf |
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Mon, 12 Oct 2020 19:59:30 -0500 |
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On 10/12/20 7:32 PM, Jack Pearson wrote:
Hello all! Thanks for all the great work you do.
I was browsing the GNU Autoconf repo and became rather confused about what the
license is for GNU Autoconf.
File copyright headers say that the project is licensed under GPLv3+.
That is correct, as documented in the NEWS for autoconf 2.65 (2009).
However, the project website (http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/autoconf) says
that it's licensed under GPLv2+.
Thanks for spotting that; I flipped the switch and it is now correctly
listing GPLv3+.
I'm inclined to believe the copyright headers, but the main COPYING file is
GPLv2. Is this significant?
Autoconf installs both COPYING and COPYINGv3 for ease of use by other
projects; but Autoconf itself is under COPYINGv3 (see Readme).
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