[Python-Dev] DRAFT: python-dev Summary for 2006-01-01 through 2006-01-15

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Otherwise, not using the distributed aclocal.m4 may be possible, but
> it's a bad idea.

That may not be so bad, actually. It looks like libffi's aclocal.m4
is not hand-written, but generated through aclocal(1). Not sure why
this is done, but this seems to be the cause of the explicit
mentionings of the GPL (the snippets that aclocal.m4 is generated
from are each GPL-licensed, make the whole aclocal.m4 GPL-licensed).

That said, I'm uncertain as to what the purpose of aclocal(1) is,
so I might be wrong.

Regards,
Martin