Re: Licence for gnulib.mk slightly vague

[Simon Josefsson]

Glenn Morris <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
>
> The copy of gnulib.mk in Emacs says:
>
>     # This file is free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU
>     # General Public License.  As a special exception to the GNU General
>     # Public License, this file may be distributed as part of a program
>     # that contains a configuration script generated by Autoconf, under
>     # the same distribution terms as the rest of that program.
>
> There's no information about which version of the GPL.
> m4/gl-comp.m4 seems to have the same issue.

I'm not saying it is intentional, but GPL does have a clause to cover
that situation:

   If the Program does not specify a version number of the
   GNU General Public License, you may choose any version ever published
   by the Free Software Foundation.

I don't recall why we used this particular license here though, anyone?

/Simon