Re: QEF_C_NORETURN / Re: Re-licensing your Autoconf Macro

[Geoff Richards]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 06:51:21PM +0100, Guido Draheim wrote:
> We can mark it "obsolete" - do you have a pointer as to
> what should be used instead? From my own experiences I was
> using the plain gcc version to check for any __attribute__
> marks. So the obsoletion hint would look like:
> dnl obsoleted: check __GNUC__+0 >= 2 && __GNUC_MINOR__+0 >= 5

Yep, that sounds like a much better way of checking it.
cheers,
   Geoff

> Geoff Richards wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 01:01:23PM +1100, Tom Howard wrote:
> > 
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> >>Dear Geoff Richards,
> >>
> >>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)
> >>
> >>QEF_C_NORETURN
> >>
> >>under the terms of this all-permissive license instead of
> >>the GPL-with-exception one?
> > 
> > 
> > That macro is probably best thrown away, but yes, you have
> > my permission to relicense it.
> > 
> >    yours,
> >       Geoff
> > 
> 
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