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[Fwd: Re: Re-licensing your Autoconf Macro]
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Tom Howard |
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[Fwd: Re: Re-licensing your Autoconf Macro] |
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Thu, 20 Jan 2005 09:32:18 +1100 |
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for our records
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Re-licensing your Autoconf Macro
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 16:12:59 +0200
From: Andrew Collier <address@hidden>
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To: Tom Howard <address@hidden>
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sure, no problem.
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 12:21:52PM +1100, Tom Howard wrote:
> Dear Andrew Collier,
>
> 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_PYTHON_MODULE
>
> under the terms of this all-permissive license instead of
> the GPL-with-exception one?
>
> Regards,
>
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- [Fwd: Re: Re-licensing your Autoconf Macro], Tom Howard, 2005/01/18
- [Fwd: Re: Re-licensing your Autoconf Macro], Tom Howard, 2005/01/19
- [Fwd: Re: Re-licensing your Autoconf Macro], Tom Howard, 2005/01/19
- [Fwd: RE: Re-licensing your Autoconf Macro], Tom Howard, 2005/01/19
- [Fwd: Re: Re-licensing your Autoconf Macro], Tom Howard, 2005/01/19
- [Fwd: Re: Re-licensing your Autoconf Macro], Tom Howard, 2005/01/19
- [Fwd: Re: Re-licensing your Autoconf Macro], Tom Howard, 2005/01/19
- [Fwd: Re: Re-licensing your Autoconf Macro], Tom Howard, 2005/01/19
- [Fwd: RE: Re-licensing your Autoconf Macro], Tom Howard, 2005/01/19
- [Fwd: Re: Re-licensing your Autoconf Macro],
Tom Howard <=
- [Fwd: Re: Re-licensing your Autoconf Macro], Tom Howard, 2005/01/19
- [Fwd: Re: Re-licensing your Autoconf Macro], Tom Howard, 2005/01/19
- [Fwd: Re: Re-licensing your Autoconf Macro], Tom Howard, 2005/01/19
- [Fwd: Re: Re-licensing your Autoconf Macro], Tom Howard, 2005/01/19
- [Fwd: Re: Re-licensing your Autoconf Macro], Tom Howard, 2005/01/20