Re: gmake's config.guess is too old

[Matt Thomas <matt%3am-software.com@localhost>]

On Aug 27, 2014, at 6:13 AM, Richard Earnshaw 
<Richard.Earnshaw%arm.com@localhost> wrote:

> On 27/08/14 13:01, Martin Husemann wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 10:33:15AM +0100, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
>>> IANAL, but it seems to me that config.guess doesn't write anything into
>>> the program being built.  So it's mere aggregation.
>> 
>> The problem with GPLv3 is that you need a whole department of lawyers and
>> still won't be able to parse it (and I bet neither will be the lawyers).
>> 
>> So better safe, as Matt said.
>> 
> 
> 
> 
> That's just FUD.  All the lawyers I've talked to (and it's >1) are of
> the opinion that the GPLv3 is much more clearly written than the v2 version.

Remember, gmake lives under external/bsd/gpl2 which is expected to have all
files under GPLv2.  Putting a GPLv3 file in there would break expectations.