Re: licensing Autoconf macros

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 11:27:00AM +0100, Peter Simons wrote:
> Alexandre Duret-Lutz writes:
>  > 
> http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/License-Notices.html#License-Notices
[...]
>  > # This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation
>  > # gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
>  > # with or without modifications, as long as this notice is preserved.
[...]
>
> Just a question: Wouldn't the text above have to be adapted
> for each submission? The copyright isn't really owned by the
> FSF, it's owned by the person who's written the macro, so
> you'd have to personalize that text to some extend, right?

Of course!  This is only the wording used by Automake.  The above URL
has an example of all-permissive license whose wording would not
require any change.