[Privoxy-devel] new windows build system

[Fabian Keil]

Lee <ler762 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 4/30/16, Fabian Keil <fk at fabiankeil.de> wrote:
> > Lee <ler762 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  
> >> On 4/28/16, Fabian Keil <fk at fabiankeil.de> wrote:  
> >> > I've contacted the FSF to ask if they can change the wording of the
> >> > exception so it covers Privoxy as well.  
> >>
> >> I'd be surprised if they changed the wording of the GPL.  I wouldn't
> >> expect more than an additional FAQ entry to clarify matters.  In any
> >> case, please let me know their answer.  
> >
> > I didn't request a change of the GPL itself, but a change of the
> > exception they added for config.sub and config.guess. From the header:
> >
> > # As a special exception to the GNU General Public License, if you
> > # distribute this file as part of a program that contains a
> > # configuration script generated by Autoconf, you may include it under
> > # the same distribution terms that you use for the rest of that
> > # program.  This Exception is an additional permission under section 7
> > # of the GNU General Public License, version 3 ("GPLv3").  
> 
> Did you ever get an answer?

I've gotten an auto-reply from the ticket system but no human response yet:

| This message has been automatically generated in response to a
| licensing question you sent to the Free Software Foundation, with subject:
|	"GPLv3 exception for config.guess and config.sub".
|
| There is no need to reply to this message right now.  Your request has
| been assigned an ID of [gnu.org #1105153].

> I haven't looked to see what it would take to get current -- maybe
> changing our code would be enough??  But it'd be nice to get rid of
> all the "obsolete" stuff:

How could "changing our code" not be enough?

Fabian
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