Re: Re-licensing your Autoconf Macro

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2005-01-19 12:22+1100 Tom Howard wrote:

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> Dear Sebastian Huber, Alan W. Irwin, Rafael Laboissiere, and Andrew Collier,
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> 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_PROG_SWIG
> AC_PYTHON_DEVEL
>
> under the terms of this all-permissive license instead of
> the GPL-with-exception one?

Yes, I so agree if Sebastian and Andrew agree as well.  (Rafael has already
given his agreement to the change.)

Alan
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