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doc: Correct statement about license of m4/*.m4 files
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Bruno Haible |
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doc: Correct statement about license of m4/*.m4 files |
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Fri, 30 Aug 2024 14:12:38 +0200 |
Gnulib has a number of modules
- whose only source files are *.m4 files,
- with no dependencies.
According to the documentation
<https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/Copyright.html>,
all *.m4 files are under a "unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it"
license. But this is not true: The files
mprotect.m4
pkg.m4
sigaltstack.m4
stack-direction.m4
are under the "GPL with Autoconf exception" license. There are no practical
consequences; however, the doc should be correct anyway.
2024-08-30 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
doc: Correct statement about license of m4/*.m4 files.
* doc/gnulib-intro.texi (Copyright): For m4/*.m4 files, list also the
"GPL with Autoconf exception" as a possible license notice.
diff --git a/doc/gnulib-intro.texi b/doc/gnulib-intro.texi
index 7000fe199b..2ca732fac9 100644
--- a/doc/gnulib-intro.texi
+++ b/doc/gnulib-intro.texi
@@ -510,6 +510,21 @@
with or without modifications, as long as this notice is preserved.
@end quotation
+or under this copyright:
+
+@quotation
+Copyright @copyright{} 20XX--20YY Free Software Foundation, Inc.@*
+This file is free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU
+General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation;
+either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+As a special exception to the GNU General Public License, this file
+may be distributed as part of a program that contains a configuration
+script generated by Autoconf, under the same distribution terms as
+the rest of that program.
+@end quotation
+
+We denote either of these license statements as ``unlimited''.
+
@item tests/
If a license statement is not present in a test module, the test files are
under GPL@. Even if the corresponding source module is under LGPL, this is
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