Jeff Squyres (jsquyres), le Wed 06 Feb 2013 17:33:03 +0100, a écrit :
> On Feb 6, 2013, at 8:21 AM, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> >> - if found, and if --enable-gpl-taint was specified, use it. STOP.
> >
> > Such kind of options are questionable: nothing says that libpci is for sure GPL. The system might have a BSD replacement for libpci with the exact same API...
>
> Do we know if this has happened?
I don't think it has.
On another level, as previously mentioned, such kind of option would
mean that we track GPL-ness, while we can't really promise that we can
check the licence of the libraries we are linking with.
Samuel
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