[cmake-developers] Improved support for using cmake-based libraries in non-cmake projects

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Friday 29 July 2011, Brad King wrote:
> On 07/18/2011 03:43 PM, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
...
> > Another question: the cmake.m4 is based on the m4-file for pkgconfig,
> > which has the GPL header at the top. So, the cmake.m4 still has that
> > header at the top.
> > Is this a problem ?
> 
> Yes.  We at least need to distribute the GPL "COPYING" file with it.  In
> the source tree the two files would need to appear together in a directory
> separate from any other files.
> 
> > I don't know how the license of a file, which is installed by cmake, but
> > not compiled-in nor used by cmake itself influences cmake.
> 
> CMake doesn't even invoke the code in that file so the license does not
> propagate.  However I'm hesitant to distribute anything with CMake that
> is not compatible with our main license.  It will be a PITA to document
> the licensing situation properly.

Ok. I'll try to find somebody who "speaks" autoconf/m4 to help me with this 
and write a BSD-licensed file from scratch.
Or do you know somebody who is good at this ?

Alex