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Re: licenses in generated m4 files
From: |
Peter Simons |
Subject: |
Re: licenses in generated m4 files |
Date: |
18 Jan 2005 11:24:32 +0100 |
Tom Howard writes:
> If you or a volunteer could compose an email asking
> permission to switch the licence, then I'm willing to
> send it and keep track of the responses.
That's great, Tom. Thank you very much. I've cooked up a
short message:
| Subject: Re-licensing your Autoconf Macro
|
| Dear contributor to the Autoconf Macro Archive,
|
| as you know, the contents of the GNU Autoconf Macro
| Archive <http://www.gnu.org/software/ac-archive/> is
| currently licensed under the GNU GPL with this special
| exception:
|
| http://www.gnu.org/software/ac-archive/htmldoc/COPYING-Exception.html
|
| This construct turned out to come with some unexpected
| legal problems, which are summarized in this article:
|
|
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/ac-archive-maintainers/2005-01/msg00030.html
|
| To fix these problems, we would like to re-release all
| macros in the Archive under an all-permissive license,
| which is described near the end of the page
| <http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/License-Notices.html>
| and which looks like this:
|
| Copying and distribution of this file, with or without
| modification, are permitted in any medium without
| royalty provided the copyright notice and this notice
| are preserved.
|
| To do that, however, we need your permission -- and this
| is what this e-mail is about.
|
| Would you agree to re-release your Autoconf macro(s)
|
| AX_FOO
| AX_BAR
|
| under the terms of this all-permissive license instead of
| the GPL-with-exception one?
I hope this does the trick. ;-)
Peter
- Re: licenses in generated m4 files, (continued)
- Re: licenses in generated m4 files, Guido Draheim, 2005/01/17
- Re: licenses in generated m4 files, Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2005/01/18
- Re: licenses in generated m4 files, Peter Simons, 2005/01/18
- Re: licenses in generated m4 files, Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2005/01/18
- Re: licenses in generated m4 files, Peter Simons, 2005/01/18
- Re: licenses in generated m4 files, Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2005/01/18
- Re: licenses in generated m4 files, Peter Simons, 2005/01/18
- Re: licenses in generated m4 files, Bastiaan Veelo, 2005/01/17
- Re: licenses in generated m4 files, Peter Simons, 2005/01/17
- Re: licenses in generated m4 files, Tom Howard, 2005/01/17
- Re: licenses in generated m4 files,
Peter Simons <=
- Permission (was Re: licenses in generated m4 files), Bastiaan Veelo, 2005/01/18
- Re: licenses in generated m4 files, Bastiaan Veelo, 2005/01/18
- Re: versioning macros, Tom Howard, 2005/01/17
versioning macros (Was: Re: bnv_have_qt), Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2005/01/15
Re: bnv_have_qt, Peter Simons, 2005/01/16