license of m4 files

[Sebastian Harl]

Hi,

Some of the m4 files shipped with enblend (e.g. m4/ax_check_gl.m4) are
shipped with a note like this:

@category InstalledPackages
@author Braden McDaniel <bra...@endoframe.com>
@version 2004-11-15
@license AllPermissive

Could you please clarify the license of those files? Currently, they are
non-redistributable, as that right is not explicitly granted to the user
("AllPermissive" could be basically anything). If you don't really care
about any specific license, please use any of the well known and GPL
compatible licenses like LGPL, GPL or the (three clause) BSD license to
avoid license conflicts.

See m4/acx_pthread.m4 for a nice example.

Thanks a lot in advance!

Cheers,
Sebastian

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[Sebastian Harl]

Hi again,

On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 02:47:01PM +0200, Sebastian Harl wrote:
> Some of the m4 files shipped with enblend (e.g. m4/ax_check_gl.m4) are
> shipped with a note like this:
>
> @category InstalledPackages
> @author Braden McDaniel <bra...@endoframe.com>
> @version 2004-11-15
> @license AllPermissive
>
> Could you please clarify the license of those files? Currently, they are
> non-redistributable, as that right is not explicitly granted to the user
> ("AllPermissive" could be basically anything). If you don't really care
> about any specific license, please use any of the well known and GPL
> compatible licenses like LGPL, GPL or the (three clause) BSD license to
> avoid license conflicts.

In a private response, Braden pointed me to [1] which includes new
versions of those macros that are licensed under the GPL2 + autoconf
macro exception (just like acx_pthread.m4). It would be nice if you
would include the new versions in the next enblend release.

TIA,
Sebastian

[1] http://code.google.com/p/autoconf-gl-macros/

[Bruno Postle]

On Tue 07-Oct-2008 at 18:40 +0200, Sebastian Harl wrote:
>
>In a private response, Braden pointed me to [1] which includes new
>versions of those macros that are licensed under the GPL2 + autoconf
>macro exception (just like acx_pthread.m4). It would be nice if you
>would include the new versions in the next enblend release.

>[1] http://code.google.com/p/autoconf-gl-macros/

Hi Sebastian, can you add this to the enblend tracker on
sourceforge?

http://sourceforge.net/projects/enblend

--
Bruno

[Sebastian Harl]

Hi,

On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 11:06:25PM +0100, Bruno Postle wrote:
> On Tue 07-Oct-2008 at 18:40 +0200, Sebastian Harl wrote:
> >In a private response, Braden pointed me to [1] which includes new
> >versions of those macros that are licensed under the GPL2 + autoconf
> >macro exception (just like acx_pthread.m4). It would be nice if you
> >would include the new versions in the next enblend release.
>
> >[1] http://code.google.com/p/autoconf-gl-macros/
>
> Hi Sebastian, can you add this to the enblend tracker on
> sourceforge?

Done - see [1].

Cheers,
Sebastian

[1] http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2152850&group_id=123407&atid=696412