> On Jan 8, 2019, at 3:48 PM, Gary V. Vaughan <g...@vaughan.pe> wrote: > > Hi Christopher,
Sorry Christoph - autocorrect fail :-( > My current employer does not sign FSF disclaimers, so I have not been able to > work on libtool for the last 4 years. I’m Cc:ing the libtool list where you > might find someone who can help. > > However, the intent of the exceptions is to allow you to build your software > using libtool without forcing you to license your own code as GPL - anything > that suggests otherwise is certainly an oversight or a misunderstanding. > > I see that the upstream sources for options-parser have had their license > texts updated since the last libtool release: > > > https://github.com/gnulib-modules/bootstrap/blob/master/build-aux/options-parser > > ...so, in the worst case you could rebootstrap your libtool tree with the > latest gnulib and bootstrap-modules to get an ltmain.sh without the confusing > licenses? > > Cheers, > Gary > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Jan 8, 2019, at 6:27 AM, Christoph Stubhann <cstubh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hello Gary, >> >> first of all I wanted to thank you and your colleagues for your ongoing >> effort to provide useful tools for the international community; you're doing >> a great job, for all of us! ;) >> >> I am currently working on a small media library that utilizes Gstreamer for >> audio and video streaming. >> A friend of mine pointed out that I should keep in mind under which software >> license I put my media library, just in case I wanted to publish it someday. >> When I took a closer look into the files of the Gstreamer library, I >> discovered that there is a file named "ltmain.sh" in the package, which >> seems to be a generated file for GNU Libtool and which is composed of a >> couple of other scripts, right? >> For most of these scripts there are exceptions in the license header, but >> for the options-parser script the license header states that it is under the >> GPL v3 license without any exception. >> Will this cause the whole "ltmain.sh" file (and therefore the whole >> Gstreamer library package, and therefore also my media library) to become >> licensed under GPL v3? And is the absence of an exception in the license >> header of the options-parser script intentional? Or is it maybe just a >> little careless mistake? >> Please forgive me my possible ignorance, but the whole licensing topic is >> very new to me. >> I hope you can help me with this matter; thanks in advance! :) >> >> Kind regards, >> Chris > _______________________________________________ https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
