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patch #8213: new macro to allow "overriding" of user provided variables for automake

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Fri 18 Oct 2013 07:48:24 PM UTC
   
 
Priority:  5 - Normal Status:  Done
Assigned to:  simons Originator Email:  -email is unavailable-
Open/Closed:  Closed
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Sun 27 Oct 2013 10:29:28 AM UTC, comment #5: 

Okay, I'm glad this issue has been resolved. Again, thank you very much for the contribution!

Peter Simons <simons>
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Tue 22 Oct 2013 03:39:16 PM UTC, comment #4: 

Peter,

You raise some very good points.

I've released code under the Smithsonian copyright using the GPL license for some time, and that would certainly have the same implications for modification and additional copyrights.  I know of other code released under the Smithsonian copyright under the GPL (http://cxc.cfa.harvard.edu/ciao/) which has undergone more formal license review by the Smithsonian, so I believe I'm on firm ground saying that the GPL (and thus the implications for further modifications and copyright assignment) is fine.

I also know of code released over the course of more than a couple of decades under even less restrictive licenses, so I believe that the Smithsonian doesn't give a hoot, provided that
it gets acknowledgement of credit.

Multiple copyright holders should not be a problem, so you can leave me in as a copyright holder.

Thanks for paying attention to these details!  I hope the above reasoning is sufficient.

Thanks,

Diab

Anonymous
Tue 22 Oct 2013 08:48:38 AM UTC, comment #3: 

Hi Diab,

are you sure that you want your name removed from the copyright section? The macro is distributed under a free license (otherwise it wouldn't be here), which means that everyone has the right to modify and improve it, and distribute the modified macro under the the same free license as before with jointly owned copyright. Under these circumstances, I can't imagine a situation in which you -- the primary author -- cannot claim copyright on his own work.

Furthermore, suppose we receive a patch from some third party over the Internet that modifies the macro we distribute in the Archive. Chances are that this person will then be added to the copyright section, too. Is that okay? Or do you think the Smithsonian would object to that?

I'm worried, because having very restrictive notions about who can claim copyright and who cannot kind-of collides with the all-permissive license this macro has been released under.

Take care,
Peter

Peter Simons <simons>
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Mon 21 Oct 2013 02:51:33 PM UTC, comment #2: 

It looks good, apart from the copyright; thanks for the reformatting!

Copyright should lie solely with the Smithsonian.  I'm not sure I get to claim anything but authorship.


Thanks,

Diab

Anonymous
Sat 19 Oct 2013 10:39:46 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Pushed in commit eebecf97cd21ed7e80bdb74d3401edbf5fb4437f. Thank you very much for the submission!

Please note that I had to do some minor cosmetic edits so that the texinfo renderer can deal with the file. I hope I didn't break anything. Checkout out ax_am_override_var.html to see what the result looks like.

Peter Simons <simons>
Group administrator
Fri 18 Oct 2013 07:48:24 PM UTC, original submission:  

automake provides for a hierarchy of variables, with user specified variables overriding those specified by the developer.

At times it may be necessary to amend the values specified by the user; this macro does this using an approach set forth on the automake mailing list:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2005-09/msg00108.html

which moves values specified at configure time into automake's base set of variables, allowing them to be manipulated.

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file #29413:  ax_am_override_var.m4 added by None (5KiB - application/x-m4 - Whoops; last attachment was buggy; this should be correct.)
file #29410:  ax_am_override_var.m4 added by None (5KiB - application/x-m4 - macro + doc + license )

 

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    2013-10-27 simons StatusReady For Test Done
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    2013-10-19 simons StatusNone Ready For Test
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    2013-10-18 None Attached File- Added ax_am_override_var.m4, #29413
    2013-10-18 None Attached File- Added ax_am_override_var.m4, #29410

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