Re: gmake's config.guess is too old

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

On Thu, 28 Aug 2014, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 09:07:51AM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
> > We'd also need assurance that the GPL3 licence wouldn't contaminate the
> > resulting objects and executables.  The FSF added a licence exception for
> > GNU bison, allowing it to be used as part of the build for non-GPL software.
> > They might be willing to do something similar for config.guess, or provide a
> > statement that it's already allowed without needing a licence exception.
>
> Isn't that already covered by the Autoconf exception, see
> https://www.gnu.org/licenses/exceptions.html
> ?

I understand the Autoconf exception to apply to the normal output from
autoconf.

> config.sub and config.guess are distributed with autoconf.

Yes, but I would not classify them as output from autoconf.  However,
they seem to be covered by their own exceptions.

--apb (Alan Barrett)