[Fwd: RE: Re-licensing your Autoconf Macro]

[Tom Howard]

This one two for the record

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: RE: Re-licensing your Autoconf Macro
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 09:35:09 -0000
From: Roy, Graeme <address@hidden>
To: Tom Howard <address@hidden>

Hi Tom,

Yes, I have no problem at all with the license being changed for the
AM_WITH_MPATROL autoconf macro.  You have my permission to make any
changes necessary.

Thanks,

Graeme.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Howard [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: 19 January 2005 01:38
To: address@hidden
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re-licensing your Autoconf Macro

Dear Graeme S. Roy,

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/msg0003
0.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)

AM_WITH_MPATROL

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.

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-- 
Tom Howard

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