Re: License notices (important!)

[Bastiaan Veelo]

Peter Simons wrote:

> I recognize that many of the subscribers here have
> contributed contents to the archive. I understand that you
> have an emotional investment in the way the archive is run
> because you have an emotional investment in the macros that
> you contributed.
>  

I can only speak for myself, but emotions have not motivated me to ask 
you to make changes to how the archive works. Instead, there is a very 
practical motivation. Many macro contributors may not be as committed to 
their contribution as I am, so it may not be (have been) that obvious.

Anyone building an archive of autoconf macro's serves a population of 
users. I like my macro being part of an archive because it increases the 
number of users of my macro. It is a complex macro and it aims at a 
moving target, so people send me bug reports and patches. So there is a 
strong relation, collaboration, between my users and me, and it runs 
/through/ the archive. The archive is a link in how we are connected. To 
make this collaboration work, I have some real "needs" of how the 
archive (any archive) works, on how it affects what I send in and what 
the user gets. That is my core motivation for my "involvement" with the 
archive; I really do not see any archive as "partly mine" because I have 
contributed content, I simply do not have emotions of this kind.

The emotions that I have regarding my macro is pride because others 
think it is worth distributing and using. That's about it :-)

Best regards,
Bastiaan.