[Mew-dist 14700] Re: mewencode

[Hideaki YOSHIFUJI ( 吉藤英明 )]

In article <20001023.142526.85389029.kazu at example.com> (at Mon, 23 Oct 2000 14:26:28 +0900), Kazu Yamamoto (山本和彦) <kazu at example.com> says:

> > # Guess values for system-dependent variables and create Makefiles.
> > # Generated automatically using autoconf version 2.13 
> > # Copyright (C) 1992, 93, 94, 95, 96 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > 
> > とありますが、これはOKですか。
> 
> プログラムが自動生成したファイルの著作権を気にする必要があるんですか？

autoconf.info より。
これによると install-sh は copyrighted でない、と書いてありますね。
というわけで、どっちもいれても大丈夫では。

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terms as the rest of your package.  `install-sh' is from the X
Consortium and is not copyrighted.

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