Re-licensing your Autoconf Macro

[Tom Howard]

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Dear Guido Draheim,

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_CHECK_CC_OPT
AC_CREATE_STDINT_H
AC_NEED_STDINT_H
AC_PROG_CC_CHAR_SUBSCRIPTS
AC_PROG_CC_NO_WRITEABLE_STRINGS
AC_PROG_CC_STRICT_PROTOTYPES
AX_CFLAGS_GCC_OPTION
AX_CFLAGS_NO_WRITABLE_STRINGS
AX_CFLAGS_STRICT_PROTOTYPES
AC_C_BIGENDIAN_CROSS
AC_PROG_CP_S
AC_COND_WITH
AC_COND_WITH_LEVEL
AC_CREATE_GENERIC_CONFIG
AC_CREATE_PREFIX_CONFIG_H
AC_CREATE_TARGET_H
AC_DEFINE_VERSIONLEVEL
AC_NEED_TARGET_H
AC_PREFIX_CONFIG_H
AC_SUBDIR_FILES
AX_ENABLE_BUILDDIR
AX_PREFIX_CONFIG_H

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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