Re: Re-licensing your Autoconf Macro

[Luc Maisonobe]

I happily agree with this new all-permissive license. If Todd is OK, go
ahead and change the license for these macros.

regards,
Luc


Le mercredi 19 janvier 2005 à 12:23 +1100, Tom Howard a écrit :
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> Dear Todd Veldhuizen and Luc Maisonobe,
> 
> 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_CXX_BOOL
> AC_CXX_COMPLEX_MATH_IN_NAMESPACE_STD
> AC_CXX_CONST_CAST
> AC_CXX_DEFAULT_TEMPLATE_PARAMETERS
> AC_CXX_DTOR_AFTER_ATEXIT
> AC_CXX_DYNAMIC_CAST
> AC_CXX_ENUM_COMPUTATIONS
> AC_CXX_ENUM_COMPUTATIONS_WITH_CAST
> AC_CXX_EXCEPTIONS
> AC_CXX_EXPLICIT
> AC_CXX_EXPLICIT_INSTANTIATIONS
> AC_CXX_EXPLICIT_TEMPLATE_FUNCTION_QUALIFICATION
> AC_CXX_FULL_SPECIALIZATION_SYNTAX
> AC_CXX_FUNCTION_NONTYPE_PARAMETERS
> AC_CXX_HAVE_COMPLEX
> AC_CXX_HAVE_COMPLEX_MATH1
> AC_CXX_HAVE_COMPLEX_MATH2
> AC_CXX_HAVE_IEEE_MATH
> AC_CXX_HAVE_NUMERIC_LIMITS
> AC_CXX_HAVE_STD
> AC_CXX_HAVE_STL
> AC_CXX_HAVE_SYSTEM_V_MATH
> AC_CXX_HAVE_VALARRAY
> AC_CXX_MEMBER_CONSTANTS
> AC_CXX_MEMBER_TEMPLATES
> AC_CXX_MEMBER_TEMPLATES_OUTSIDE_CLASS
> AC_CXX_MUTABLE
> AC_CXX_NAMESPACES
> AC_CXX_NCEG_RESTRICT
> AC_CXX_NEW_FOR_SCOPING
> AC_CXX_OLD_FOR_SCOPING
> AC_CXX_PARTIAL_ORDERING
> AC_CXX_PARTIAL_SPECIALIZATION
> AC_CXX_REINTERPRET_CAST
> AC_CXX_RTTI
> AC_CXX_STATIC_CAST
> AC_CXX_TEMPLATE_KEYWORD_QUALIFIER
> AC_CXX_TEMPLATE_QUALIFIED_BASE_CLASS
> AC_CXX_TEMPLATE_QUALIFIED_RETURN_TYPE
> AC_CXX_TEMPLATE_SCOPED_ARGUMENT_MATCHING
> AC_CXX_TEMPLATES
> AC_CXX_TEMPLATES_AS_TEMPLATE_ARGUMENTS
> AC_CXX_TYPENAME
> AC_CXX_USE_NUMTRAIT
> 
> under the terms of this all-permissive license instead of
> the GPL-with-exception one?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> - --
> Tom Howard
>   on Behalf of the Autoconf Macro Archive.
> 
> Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x433B299A
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> 
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