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

[Henrik Gramner]

On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 3:20 AM, Brad Smith <brad at comstyle.com> wrote:
> On 08/05/15 17:13, Henrik Gramner wrote:
> 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.

"As a special exception to the GNU General Public License, if you
distribute this file as part of a program that contains a
configuration script generated by Autoconf, you may include it under
the same distribution terms that you use for the rest of that
program."

So there's an exception when using a "configuration script generated
by Autoconf", but we don't use that - just those two files.

As far as the GPLv2 is concerned, "scripts used to control
compilation" are equivalent to source code and must be distributed
under the same terms.