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Re: licensing Autoconf macros
From: |
Alexandre Duret-Lutz |
Subject: |
Re: licensing Autoconf macros |
Date: |
Mon, 17 Jan 2005 22:00:46 +0100 |
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 11:27:00AM +0100, Peter Simons wrote:
> Alexandre Duret-Lutz writes:
> >
> http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/License-Notices.html#License-Notices
[...]
> > # This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation
> > # gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
> > # with or without modifications, as long as this notice is preserved.
[...]
>
> Just a question: Wouldn't the text above have to be adapted
> for each submission? The copyright isn't really owned by the
> FSF, it's owned by the person who's written the macro, so
> you'd have to personalize that text to some extend, right?
Of course! This is only the wording used by Automake. The above URL
has an example of all-permissive license whose wording would not
require any change.