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Re: Re-licensing your Autoconf Macro
From: |
Geoff Richards |
Subject: |
Re: Re-licensing your Autoconf Macro |
Date: |
Wed, 19 Jan 2005 12:28:32 +0000 |
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On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 01:01:23PM +1100, Tom Howard wrote:
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> Dear Geoff Richards,
>
> 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)
>
> QEF_C_NORETURN
>
> under the terms of this all-permissive license instead of
> the GPL-with-exception one?
That macro is probably best thrown away, but yes, you have
my permission to relicense it.
yours,
Geoff
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--- Geoff Richards -------------><-------------- http://ungwe.org/ ---
"I tried to fling my shadow at the moon,
The while my blood leapt with a wordless song." -- Theodore Roethke
- Re-licensing your Autoconf Macro, (continued)
- Re-licensing your Autoconf Macro, Tom Howard, 2005/01/18
- Re-licensing your Autoconf Macro, Tom Howard, 2005/01/18
- Re-licensing your Autoconf Macro, Tom Howard, 2005/01/18
- Re-licensing your Autoconf Macro, Tom Howard, 2005/01/18
- Re-licensing your Autoconf Macro, Tom Howard, 2005/01/18
- Re-licensing your Autoconf Macro, Tom Howard, 2005/01/18
- Re-licensing your Autoconf Macro, Tom Howard, 2005/01/18
- Re-licensing your Autoconf Macro, Tom Howard, 2005/01/18
- Re: Re-licensing your Autoconf Macro,
Geoff Richards <=
Re-licensing your Autoconf Macro, Tom Howard, 2005/01/18
RE: Re-licensing your Autoconf Macro, Dean Povey, 2005/01/18
Re: Re-licensing your Autoconf Macro, Tom Howard, 2005/01/19