Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Jan 2002 10:11:10 +0100 | From | Giacomo Catenazzi <> | Subject | Re: [kbuild-devel] Re: CML2-2.1.3 is available |
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Kai Henningsen wrote:
> phillips@bonn-fries.net (Daniel Phillips) wrote on 22.01.02 in <E16Snav-0001kl-00@starship.berlin>: >>On January 21, 2002 06:05 pm, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: >> >>This is kernel autoconfig, different namespace, same idea. I don't think >>you have a problem. Besides, last time I checked, autoconfig wasn't >>copyrighted. >> > > Last time I checked, autoconf (not -ig) was GPL. But as long as you don't > use code from it, copyright is completely irrelevant anyway: trademark > status might be relevant when you're talking about names. (And %@$&$! > patent status when talking about algorithms.) >
No problem on copyright, licences,... I choose (for the file names, not for the 'make autoconfig') a longer name, to distinguish the kernel autoconfig from the GNU autoconf (without the final 'ig'). Only for pratical reasons.
If autoconfigure will go in the kernel, I have not problems on filenames, but when I initially created it, I thinked ev. to distribuite it as a package. Here the name matter.
IMHO longer filename ia a good things (iff normal user should not type it).
giacomo
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