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Re: Licence for gnulib.mk slightly vague
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Simon Josefsson |
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Re: Licence for gnulib.mk slightly vague |
Date: |
Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:13:08 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) |
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