Re: Automake and GPLv3

[Bernd Jendrissek]

On 8/30/07, Bruce Korb <address@hidden> wrote:
> Something fuzzily along the lines that all code emitted by these tools
> are, by that action alone, released to the public domain with no licensing
> requirements or constraints whatever?  After all, they are sufficiently
> convoluted that I certainly cannot construe any constructive purpose for
> the text, outside of the explicit configure/make process for a specific 
> project.
> Understanding that generated stuff comes as close to understanding
> hieroglyphics as I ever want to get.  In other words, it should not need
> strong protections.  :)

/# su - evil
~evil$ for i in AC_CHECK_DECLS AC_PROG_CC AC_CONFIG_FILES ...; do
>  echo AC_INIT(...)\n$i(??magic??) >configure.ac
>  autoconf
>  echo "AC_DEFUN($i, [`diff -u configure.null configure |grep ^+ |sed 
> s/^.//`])"  |sed 's/??magic??/$1/g' >evillib/$i.m4
>done
~evil$ tar -czf autoconf-under-eula.tar.gz evillib/