[GRASS5] v.in.dwg license problem

Markus Neteler neteler at itc.it
Fri May 16 09:21:08 EDT 2003


On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 02:07:44PM +0100, Glynn Clements wrote:
> 
> Radim Blazek wrote:
> 
> > As you could see, I took your opinion into account and I have done 
> > some extra work for you. And I'll do some extra work every day,
> > when typing 'yes' during compilations, to remind me that GPL is bad.
> 
> An interactive prompt is a bad idea; the build process shouldn't
> require user interaction.
> 
> It would be better to add a --with-dwg switch to configure, and have
> configure print a warning message regarding the licensing issues if
> you use that switch.

This is already there:

configure --help | grep dwg
  --with-opendwg          support openDWG functionality (default: no)
  --with-opendwg-includes=DIRS
  --with-opendwg-libs=DIRS

Or did you mean something different? Only a warning had to be added if
desired.

Markus




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