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Re: CVS commit: src/external/gpl2/gmake/dist



On 01.06.2018 10:33, Frédéric Fauberteau wrote:
> Le 2018-05-01 03:23, Kamil Rytarowski a écrit :
>> On 01.05.2018 02:55, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>>> In article
>>> <CAM+xf6CEAzAK+1MWf7MUkcE6ZK--A2HTirHNMT7wOdZ6-i0S0g%mail.gmail.com@localhost>,
>>> Kimihiro Nonaka  <nonakap%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>>>> 2018-05-01 8:53 GMT+09:00 Kamil Rytarowski <n54%gmx.com@localhost>:
>>>>
>>>>> This is polling GPLv3 code into GPLv2 gmake - these licenses are
>>>>> incompatible.
>>>
>>> You mean pulling here? There is no pulling GPLv3 code unless the code
>>> is copied from GPLv3.
>>>
>>
>> It was cherry-picked from GPLv3+.
> 
> Thanks to the following patch, I can cross-build a toolset on my Arch
> box. When I look at the make.git tree:
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/make.git/tree/
> I don't see any 'configure' file. In which way this patch breaks the
> license?
> 
> Index: configure
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/src/external/gpl2/gmake/dist/configure,v
> retrieving revision 1.1.1.1
> diff -u -r1.1.1.1 configure
> --- configure    18 Aug 2014 06:46:54 -0000    1.1.1.1
> +++ configure    1 Jun 2018 08:05:31 -0000
> @@ -13619,10 +13619,9 @@
>  #include <glob.h>
>  #include <fnmatch.h>
> 
> -#define GLOB_INTERFACE_VERSION 1
>  #if !defined _LIBC && defined __GNU_LIBRARY__ && __GNU_LIBRARY__ > 1
>  # include <gnu-versions.h>
> -# if _GNU_GLOB_INTERFACE_VERSION == GLOB_INTERFACE_VERSION
> +# if _GNU_GLOB_INTERFACE_VERSION == 1 || _GNU_GLOB_INTERFACE_VERSION == 2
>     gnu glob
>  # endif
>  #endif

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/make.git/tree/configure.ac#n6

# GNU Make is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
# the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
Software
# Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later
# version.

GPL2 and GPL3 are incompatible for some reasons.. we could just upgrade
gmake to GPLv3. It's used for building GCC only.

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