Re: Update some sim copyright headers to GPLv3-or-later

Mike Frysinger
2012-12-20T22:35:39Z

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On Thursday 20 December 2012 00:03:21 Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > what i mean is worrying about the flow of code. if they aren't both
> > GPLv2 based, i now have to worry about people being able to make the
> > claim that i'm committing GPLv3 sim code to the GPLv2 kernel and
> > tainting it. considering the code in question, doing GPLv3 on it will
> > gain nothing.
>
> I have relayed the above to the FSF.

thanks

> > > I don't understand exactly the status of this file. Can I just
> > > regenerate the "reverted" version and the project will still work?
> >
> > next time someone runs `aclocal` (like me), it'll blow away your
> > changes as it copies m4 macros from files in /usr/share/ and into the
> > aclocal.m4.
>
> I ran aclocal myself, and it blew away more than just my change,
> but the entire block of code. Does it mean that only you are able
> to regenerate this file properly?

do you have pkg-config installed ? you'd need that (since it provides pkg.m4)
in order for `aclocal` to work in the bfin subdir.
-mike

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