Re: gmake's config.guess is too old

[Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha%arm.com@localhost>]

On 27/08/14 15:07, Matt Thomas wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> 

So upgrade to GNU make-4.0, put it in gpl3.  Problem solved.