[x264-devel] [PATCH] Updated configure to detect MIPS platform and set flags.

[Brad Smith]

On 08/05/15 17:13, Henrik Gramner wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 11:29 AM, Rishikesh More
> <Rishikesh.More at imgtec.com> wrote:
>> MIPS related changes in config.sub are already in place at <config-patches at gnu.org>.
>> The timestamp on config.sub, which is being used in x264, is from 2012.
>> If you would sync with latest copy you would find all the MIPS related changes in it.
>> I've tested X264 code for correctness with both Mips32 and Mips64.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Rishi
>
> GNU changed the license of config.(guess|sub) to GPLv3 in 2012 which
> is why we haven't updated them past that.
>
> It's my understanding that you cannot distribute GPLv2 software built
> using a GPLv3 build script.

The build bits have no impact on the license of the project using them.
That's why there is specifically an exception for autoconf and related
bits like config.guess / config.sub otherwise you wouldn't be able to
use autoconf and those related bits with non-GPL software or GPL'd 
projects using older versions of GPL (v2 only) either.

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