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

[Tom Howard]

for our records

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Re-licensing your Autoconf Macro
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:55:31 -0700
From: Dale K. Hawkins <address@hidden>
To: Tom Howard <address@hidden>
References: <address@hidden>

Thanks for the email Tom.  I have absolutely no problem with the
package being released with an GNU approved licensing scheme.  To be
honest, I have not even built rpms in years (I switched to debian,
which does not require this sort of hack).  I was frankly amazed
anyone was using it.  :-)

-Dale K. Hawkins

Tom Howard wrote:

| Dear Dale K. Hawkins,
|
| 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)
|
| AM_RPM_INIT
|
| 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
|
|
|




-- 
Tom Howard

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