[Privoxy-devel] Outdated autoconf files (was: new windows build system)

[Fabian Keil]

Fabian Keil <fk at fabiankeil.de> wrote on 2016-04-28:

> Lee <ler762 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I've been working on getting Privoxy to build under the current
> > cygwin, which requires a 'cross-compiler toolchain'.  The autoconf
> > stuff in privoxy is so old that it doesn't support --host & --build so
> > how do you feel about replacing config.guess & config.sub with
> > current/later versions?  What I've been using is
> > 
> >  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=autoconf.git;a=blob_plain;f=build-aux/config.guess;hb=refs/heads/master
> >  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=autoconf.git;a=blob_plain;f=build-aux/config.sub;hb=refs/heads/master
> 
> We're currently using the last revisions that were licensed under
> GPLv2 or later. The current versions are licensed under GPLv3 or
> later and while there is an exception, it does not apply to Privoxy
> (according to my interpretation) because we don't ship files generated
> by autoconf.
> 
> Hopefully that's just an oversight.
> 
> I've contacted the FSF to ask if they can change the wording of the
> exception so it covers Privoxy as well.

Four years later the issue still exists so I've send the FSF
another message and received another auto-reply ...

In somewhat related news, Privoxy seems to have made it on
the list of "FSF High Priority Projects":
https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Collection:High_Priority_Projects

Fabian
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