Re: AC_FLAGS_WARN_ALL changes proposed for inclusion in next autoconf release
"David A. Wheeler" <[email protected]>
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Paul Eggert [mailto:[email protected]] on September 05, 2014 6:25 PM: > Thanks for getting the ball rolling on this. A couple of thoughts. > > First, how does this compare to the warnings and manywarnings modules of Gnulib? ... > Second, from a brief look at the patch it appears that it is derived from code that other people have written, which would mean we'd need to get copyright papers from them too. On Sun, 7 Sep 2014 10:28:18 -0400, "Visser, Dale" <[email protected]> replied: > It is quite similar to the modules you mention. It is important to note that here AC_FLAGS_WARN_ALL is by default being invoked by the macros that set compilers for C, C++ or Fortran. From the documentation changes, it is described how this may be turned off... Excellent! To me, the key is making warnings the *default* in a compiler-independent way, and then letting people turn them off or control them. > My understanding was that all of the code I adapted was already under projects hosted Gnu, and so the copyright requirements had already been satisfied. I have given credit in the code comments wherever said code was adapted. I'm hoping Mr. Blake can speak authoritatively on this, as I am not an expert on the copyright aspects. I'm not a lawyer, but I know that FSF is a stickler on copyright assignments. FSF has a copyright assignment from Dale Visser's employer, and Dale's code is derived from previous FSF code, so I think all the copyright issues are addressed. So... can this be added? I don't know of any serious objections. --- David A. Wheeler