On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 6:09 PM, Branko Čibej <br...@apache.org> wrote:
> On 20.05.2015 00:44, Justin Mclean wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> +0 (binding) from me until these 2 issues are resolved. Of course other IPMC
>> members may vote differently.
>>
>> Several bundled files have GPL license headers e.g.
>> ./ipc/shmem/config.guess, ./ipc/shmem/ltmain.sh etc. While these look like
>> auto generated build files but I'm not sure that they can be included in a
>> source release.
>
> There's no way around including such files; any normal (i.e., not Java
> :) source package that uses configure and libtool needs those files
> bundled in the source.
If you read the license text in those files, those files carry
well-known exceptions - see below. So, it should be fine.
(httpd/Subversion/APR release tarballs usually end up with similar
files.) -- justin
config.guess:
# As a special exception to the GNU General Public License, if you
# distribute this file as part of a program that contains a
# configuration script generated by Autoconf, you may include it under
# the same distribution terms that you use for the rest of that
# program. This Exception is an additional permission under section 7
# of the GNU General Public License, version 3 ("GPLv3").
ltmain.sh:
# As a special exception to the GNU General Public License,
# if you distribute this file as part of a program or library that
# is built using GNU Libtool, you may include this file under the
# same distribution terms that you use for the rest of that program.
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