On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 3:54 AM, Miles Bader <mi...@gnu.org> wrote: > Gaetan Nadon <mems...@videotron.ca> writes: >> - The minimum autoconf version should be 2.60. Features above 2.60 >> should not be used. Starting v 2.62 there is a license controversy > > What is that? > > [The NEWS file doesn't show any license changes in 2.62. Autoconf > itself switched to the GPLv3 in 2.65, but I'm not sure why that should > be an issue if earlier versions were OK... (the NEWS file says "As with > earlier versions, the license includes an exception clause so that you > may release a configure script generated by autoconf under the license > of your own program").] > > Thanks, > > -miles
We had a similar discussion on the xorg-devel@ mailing list a while back [1] In short, 2.62 is the first version that includes GPLv3 tools to build autoconf, even though what is installed is GPLv2. Matt [1] http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2011-June/022724.html _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
