Re: [PATCH] config/debuginfod.m4: Rewrite with pkg-config

[Simon Marchi <simark at simark dot ca>]

On 2020-03-04 2:20 p.m., Aaron Merey wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 9:33 PM Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca> wrote:
>> Instead of calling pkg-config by hand, could we use the PKG_CHECK_MODULES
>> autoconf macro?  It is distributed with pkg-config, and is typically the
>> one used for that purpose.  We would have to pick a given pkg-config version
>> (such as the latest as of today) and mandate that autoreconf/aclocal is ran
>> with this pkg-config version.
> 
> The reason for calling out to pkg-config as opposed to using
> PKG_CHECK_MODULES is that there were concerns raised over its
> inclusion in the project due to the copyright of pkg.m4. It uses GPLv2+
> but the copyright is not held by the Free Software Association.
> 
> Aaron

I don't really see the problem, we do distribute software for which the FSF doesn't
hold the copyright, like zlib.  As long as we don't pretend that it's FSF-owned code,
what's the problem?  And the GPLv2+ license means it's GLPv3-compatible.

Simon