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Re: Re-licensing your Autoconf Macro
From: |
Peter Simons |
Subject: |
Re: Re-licensing your Autoconf Macro |
Date: |
19 Jan 2005 05:07:55 +0100 |
Steven G Johnson writes:
> I'm concerned that the proposed license does not disclaim
> warrantees. This is fine for a README file, but for
> executable code it seems to be asking for trouble.
It is the recommendation of the FSF:
| If your package distributes Autoconf macros that are
| intended to be used (hence distributed) by third-party
| packages under possibly incompatible licenses, you may
| also use the above all-permissive license for these
| macros.
http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/License-Notices.html
Since I'm no copyright lawyer, I simply do what I am being
told. ;-)
I really don't see any danger though. We distribute those
macros under GPL, so warranty _has been_ disclaimed when you
get it from here. After that, it's the re-distributors
problem. The license change accommodates for the fact that
Autoconf macros are _supposed_ to be redistributed: as
configure scripts. So the license of the to-be-configured
software should apply, not the one of the Autoconf macro.
Hope this helps in any conceivable way.
Peter
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