pkgconfig license

[John McCutchan]

On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 11:46 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Saturday 23 April 2005 10:22, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> > On Sat, 23 Apr 2005, Matthieu Herrb wrote:
> > > Reading http://wiki.x.org/wiki/ModularDevelopersGuide I see that
> > > pkgconfig is required to build the modular tree, not only for
> > > developpers. This conflicts with the goal that X.Org should be buildable
> > > on OpenBSD's (or NetBSD's) base system which doesn't include pkgconfig
> > > (and never will as long as its license is the GPL).
> > > Is it possible to ask the pkgconfig developpers to change the license to
> > > the MIT/X one or at least to a dual scheme ?
> >
> > I agree it should have a better license.
> >
> > And it should be easy to rewrite.
> >
> > Also, I think pkg-config can be bypassed also for OpenBSD and NetBSD since
> > you already have a defined system and clearly know what software is
> > included.
> 
> Good pkg-config style is to use a pkg-config check first and fall back to 
> traditional configure probes if it's not available.

I don't think so.

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John McCutchan <ttb at tentacle.dhs.org>