On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 05:24:12PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: > Daniel Berlin wrote on 04 August 2008 17:07: > > > On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 6:19 AM, Joseph S. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >> On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > >> > >>> * Joseph S. Myers wrote on Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 10:00:38PM CEST: > >>>> > >>>> (But the configure code also > >>>> shouldn't allow configuring with a GPLv2 version of polylib.) > >>> > >>> Why? Use is not forbidden by incompatible free software licenses here, > >>> only redistribution is. > >> > >> This is the same principle as config.host giving an error for an attempt > >> to build on UWIN host: in both cases, avoid knowingly building something > >> undistributable. > >> > > If we are doing that, we really shouldn't be. > > One of the very explicit freedoms in the GPL is to be able to build > > versions for internal use that are not publicly distributed. > > I can see the advantage of a speedbump in the path to prevent the > distribution of such versions happening merely by accident, though. > > Maybe it should be an error that can be downgraded to a warning by adding > a configure option, something along the lines of > "--yes-i-understand-this-version-cannot-be-legally-distributed" ?
How about just convincing the polylib people to change their license to GPL2||GPL3 and be done with this?
