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Re: make variable for GPL compliant builds
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Eric Blake |
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Re: make variable for GPL compliant builds |
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Mon, 03 Sep 2012 06:09:36 -0600 |
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On 09/02/2012 03:30 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote:
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> I have a couple of projects that include some non-GPL friendly code
Such as?
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> However, such code is optional and can be disabled
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> I would like to give people a way to set some variable that excludes all
> the non-GPL stuff, so they can build a re-distributable binary, e.g.
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> make GPL_FREE_BINARIES=1 all
That name sounds like you are building a project free from any GPL
modules; a better name might be GPL_ONLY_BINARIES.
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> Is there any standard name for such a variable, or has this been
> contemplated?
No, and no. And such a name would have to be provided by the packages
in question, because it does not sound like it is common enough to be
worth doing in autoconf.
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Eric Blake address@hidden +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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