Re: licenses in generated m4 files

[Peter Simons]

Tom Howard writes:

 > If you or a volunteer could compose an email asking
 > permission to switch the licence, then I'm willing to
 > send it and keep track of the responses.

That's great, Tom. Thank you very much. I've cooked up a
short message:

 | Subject: Re-licensing your Autoconf Macro
 |
 | Dear contributor to the Autoconf Macro Archive,
 |
 | 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)
 |
 |   AX_FOO
 |   AX_BAR
 |
 | under the terms of this all-permissive license instead of
 | the GPL-with-exception one?

I hope this does the trick. ;-)

Peter