Re: Automake (alpha) release request

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sun, 16 Dec 2007, Bob Proulx wrote:

> Sebastian Pipping wrote:
> > Thanks for your replies! As I understood the Automake
> > release is delayed because its licensing info has not
> > been updated to GPLv3 yet?
>
> Actually the reverse.  Because the licensing has already been updated
> it is now delayed.  Automake installs auxiliary files into your
> project.  They have previously had this license wording.

The license update can simply be temporarily reverted back to v2 (with 
FSF approval).

> There are a number of projects that are also waiting for this
> licensing issue to be resolved.  Everyone wants it to happen.  But the
> automake team's hands are tied while the FSF works this licensing
> issue out.  I can only recommend patience.

History shows that this could take months, or over a year to work out.

It is possible that some non-GNU packages may not be satisfied with 
the result (after waiting months or a year) and so we will end up with 
forked versions of autoconf, automake, and libtool.  As we know, 
autoconf effectively forked before and we don't want that to happen 
again.

Bob
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