Re: Re-licensing your Autoconf Macro

[Mark Ethan Trostler]

Absolutely - no problem.
    thanks,
        Mark


On 1/18/05 5:36 PM, "Tom Howard" <address@hidden> wrote:

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> Dear Mark Ethan Trostler,
> 
> 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)
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> 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.
> 
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