Re: Do the people I see in the movies use Unix?

From: Måns Rullgård (mru_at_inprovide.com)
Date: 05/20/05 

Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 17:23:37 +0200

Dragan Cvetkovic <me@privacy.net> writes:

>> There are exceptions, of course. In one scene (I can't remember from
>> where), a computer screen was shown, supposedly displaying the code
>> for a virus of sorts. On closer inspection, it turned out to be a
>> snippet from a typical makefile generated with automake.
>
> Isn't that a virus anyway? :-)

If you're thinking of the virality of the GPL, it doesn't apply to the
makefiles. They are given this license:

# This Makefile.in is free software; the Free Software Foundation
# gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
# with or without modifications, as long as this notice is preserved. 

-- 
Måns Rullgård
mru@inprovide.com