[Opendnssec-develop] [OpenDNSSEC] #86: unclear licenses on m4/ files

OpenDNSSEC owner-dnssec-trac at kirei.se
Tue Jan 26 11:06:16 UTC 2010


#86: unclear licenses on m4/ files
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Reporter:  Ondřej Surý <ondrej@…>         |       Owner:  alex   
    Type:  defect                         |      Status:  new    
Priority:  major                          |   Component:  Auditor
 Version:  trunk                          |    Keywords:         
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 Hi,

 sorry for being license fascist :), but there is lot unclear in m4/
 directories.

 This applies to all components carrying those m4 files (including
 softhsm):

 acx_*.m4 - missing license header, license unclear

 acx_ruby_library.m4 - +header says acx_sqlite3.m4 (cut&paste)

 am_path_ruby.m4 - missing license header, illegal to distribute, since
 it's clearly modified python.m4 from GNU automake, which is licensed
 under:

 {{{
 ## ------------------------                                 -*- Autoconf
 -*-
 ## Python file handling
 ## From Andrew Dalke
 ## Updated by James Henstridge
 ## ------------------------
 # Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009
 # Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 #
 # This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation
 # gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
 # with or without modifications, as long as this notice is preserved.
 }}}

 All other m4 files will be fine when license boilerplate will be added.
 am_ruby_path.m4 license will have to be fixed before it goes to Debian.

 Ondrej

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