From: Doug Porter <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: licensing

"Evan Martin" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> As I recall, the --foreign flag to automake tells it "this
> isn't GPLed software, so don't add your files".

Using the --foreign option makes automake less strict about GNU
policy (it doesn't have anything to do with the GNU GPL per se).
It is supposed to do only the minimum necessary.

> But I thought we already used that?

Actually the autogen.sh script is using --gnu...  The following
trivial patch resolves the problem:


git-svn-id: http://code.sixapart.com/svn/memcached/trunk@228 b0b603af-a30f-0410-a34e-baf09ae79d0b

autogen.sh

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ $AUTOHEADER || exit 1
 
 echo "automake..."
 AUTOMAKE=${AUTOMAKE:-automake-1.7}
-$AUTOMAKE --gnu --add-missing || automake --gnu --add-missing || exit 1
+$AUTOMAKE --foreign --add-missing || automake --gnu --add-missing || exit 1
 
 echo "autoconf..."
 AUTOCONF=${AUTOCONF:-autoconf}