Licensing of cmake modules?

Alexander Neundorf neundorf at kde.org
Wed Jun 28 18:54:30 CEST 2006


On Wednesday 28 June 2006 18:07, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 June 2006 17:37, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > But does that mean to insert the BSD copyright header in every tiny cmake
> > file ?
>
> Well, in every file somebody else could copy over. another possibility
> would be to add a special exception clause, like autoconf does:
>
>
> # 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.
>
>
> I'm not sure which variant is better.

This is so much text, simply using the BSD license is better and easier to 
understand I'd say.
What about when such modules go into cmake cvs ?
cmake itself is licensed under BSD, can the BSD license then removed from the 
files ?

Bye
Alex
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