[Fwd: Re: Re-licensing your Autoconf Macro]

[Tom Howard]

for our records

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Subject: Re: Re-licensing your Autoconf Macro
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 06:39:13 +0000 (GMT)
From: Andrew Collier <address@hidden>
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To: address@hidden

it's fine with me.

 --- "Alan W. Irwin" <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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,
> >
> > 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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Andrew B. Collier          Space Physics Research Institute
                           University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban


        
        
                
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