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

[edgar.soldin at web.de]

On August 8, 2015 3:20:50 AM GMT+02:00, Brad Smith <brad at comstyle.com> wrote:
>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.

see
 http://www.gnu.org/licenses/exceptions.en.html

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