Re: Re-licensing your Autoconf Macro

[Steven G. Johnson]

On Tue, 19 Jan 2005, Peter Simons wrote:
> > 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:

I saw that, but what I didn't see is any justification for not disclaiming 
warranty.

> 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.

No, it's my problem, because you're asking me to distribute my code 
without disclaiming warranty.  And if someone redistributes the macro 
under the permissive license, I'm still the author.  Why should I ask for 
trouble?

Why not just use something like the MIT license, which is just as 
permissive as the one you want but also disclaims warranty?  I wouldn't 
have any problem with that.

Cordially,
Steven G. Johnson