On 2022-01-19 11:03:15 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Jonas Smedegaard <jo...@jones.dk> writes: > > > Thanks for elaborating. > > > The concern is not licensing, but maintenance. It is covered in Debian > > Policy § 4.13: > > https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#embedded-code-copies > > Debian packages should not make use of these convenience copies unless > the included package is explicitly intended to be used in this way. > > The part after the "unless" is the case for autoconf-archive upstream: > shipping a copy with your package is how it is intended to be used.
FYI, this is what we now do in GNU MPFR (there's only one file), after we got a failure due to the upgrade to Autoconf 2.71: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=985458 -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
