Re-licensing your Autoconf Macro

[Tom Howard]

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Dear Todd Veldhuizen and Luc Maisonobe,

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)

AC_CXX_BOOL
AC_CXX_COMPLEX_MATH_IN_NAMESPACE_STD
AC_CXX_CONST_CAST
AC_CXX_DEFAULT_TEMPLATE_PARAMETERS
AC_CXX_DTOR_AFTER_ATEXIT
AC_CXX_DYNAMIC_CAST
AC_CXX_ENUM_COMPUTATIONS
AC_CXX_ENUM_COMPUTATIONS_WITH_CAST
AC_CXX_EXCEPTIONS
AC_CXX_EXPLICIT
AC_CXX_EXPLICIT_INSTANTIATIONS
AC_CXX_EXPLICIT_TEMPLATE_FUNCTION_QUALIFICATION
AC_CXX_FULL_SPECIALIZATION_SYNTAX
AC_CXX_FUNCTION_NONTYPE_PARAMETERS
AC_CXX_HAVE_COMPLEX
AC_CXX_HAVE_COMPLEX_MATH1
AC_CXX_HAVE_COMPLEX_MATH2
AC_CXX_HAVE_IEEE_MATH
AC_CXX_HAVE_NUMERIC_LIMITS
AC_CXX_HAVE_STD
AC_CXX_HAVE_STL
AC_CXX_HAVE_SYSTEM_V_MATH
AC_CXX_HAVE_VALARRAY
AC_CXX_MEMBER_CONSTANTS
AC_CXX_MEMBER_TEMPLATES
AC_CXX_MEMBER_TEMPLATES_OUTSIDE_CLASS
AC_CXX_MUTABLE
AC_CXX_NAMESPACES
AC_CXX_NCEG_RESTRICT
AC_CXX_NEW_FOR_SCOPING
AC_CXX_OLD_FOR_SCOPING
AC_CXX_PARTIAL_ORDERING
AC_CXX_PARTIAL_SPECIALIZATION
AC_CXX_REINTERPRET_CAST
AC_CXX_RTTI
AC_CXX_STATIC_CAST
AC_CXX_TEMPLATE_KEYWORD_QUALIFIER
AC_CXX_TEMPLATE_QUALIFIED_BASE_CLASS
AC_CXX_TEMPLATE_QUALIFIED_RETURN_TYPE
AC_CXX_TEMPLATE_SCOPED_ARGUMENT_MATCHING
AC_CXX_TEMPLATES
AC_CXX_TEMPLATES_AS_TEMPLATE_ARGUMENTS
AC_CXX_TYPENAME
AC_CXX_USE_NUMTRAIT

under the terms of this all-permissive license instead of
the GPL-with-exception one?

Regards,

- --
Tom Howard
  on Behalf of the Autoconf Macro Archive.

Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x433B299A



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