[libvirt] [PATCH] Don't ship autogen.sh in release tarballs

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Thu, 2017-04-13 at 10:28 -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 04/13/2017 10:19 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > Aside from the licensing question, IMHO, the tar.xz should always contain
> > all the files we have in GIT,

Including .gitignore? ;)

[...]
> You have to have a really strong reason for making a tarball that is not
> a superset of a git checkout, as it gets very hard to prove that the
> tarball is then sufficient to create a fork (and the fact remains that
> the GPL requires anyone getting a libvirt binary be afforded the chance
> to fork from the same sources used to build that binary).

I hadn't thought about the potential legal consequences:
let's just stay on the safe side and leave the file in.

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization