Re: gmake's config.guess is too old

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

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.

R.

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