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

[Tom Howard]

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for our records.  Also file in the humor basket.

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Subject: Re: Re-licensing your Autoconf Macro
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 21:50:36 +0100
From: Can Bican <address@hidden>
To: Tom Howard <address@hidden>
References: <address@hidden>

Hi Tom,

I do. You're doing a good job keeping this archive, and it's more your
right than mine to do whatever you want with it. Please change the
license to whatever it's appropriate for you.

Regards,

On 19.Oca.2005, at 02:22, Tom Howard wrote:

> Dear Can Bican,
> 
> 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_CHECK_MYSQLR
> 
> 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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> 
> 
> 
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