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| author | Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> | 2009-09-09 19:53:31 +0200 |
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| committer | Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> | 2009-09-09 19:53:31 +0200 |
| commit | 675a0c95df463ca11a9c456bc0f0af324a97ea51 (patch) | |
| tree | 276fc193241768a32be3c6878f15f23302954e03 /README | |
| parent | 5b5d0c58422905f2cd1202cd685060a82e1e0673 (diff) | |
| download | autoconf-675a0c95df463ca11a9c456bc0f0af324a97ea51.tar.gz | |
Update License to GPLv3+ including new Autoconf Exception.
* NEWS, README: Update licensing information.
* COPYING.EXCEPTION: New file.
* Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Distribute it.
* cfg.mk (autom4te-update): Remove copyright change warning.
* lib/autoconf/autoconf.m4, lib/autoconf/autoheader.m4,
lib/autoconf/autoscan.m4, lib/autoconf/autotest.m4,
lib/autoconf/autoupdate.m4, lib/autoconf/c.m4,
lib/autoconf/erlang.m4, lib/autoconf/fortran.m4,
lib/autoconf/functions.m4, lib/autoconf/general.m4,
lib/autoconf/headers.m4, lib/autoconf/lang.m4,
lib/autoconf/libs.m4, lib/autoconf/oldnames.m4,
lib/autoconf/programs.m4, lib/autoconf/specific.m4,
lib/autoconf/status.m4, lib/autoconf/types.m4,
lib/autotest/autotest.m4, lib/autotest/general.m4,
lib/autotest/specific.m4, lib/m4sugar/foreach.m4,
lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4, lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4: Update exception
statement, bump to GPLv3.
* bin/autoconf.as, bin/autoheader.in, bin/autom4te.in,
bin/autoreconf.in, bin/autoscan.in, bin/autoupdate.in,
bin/ifnames.in: Bump to GPLv3+, adjust --version output
to reflect the GPLv3+ and the Autoconf Exception.
* lib/Autom4te/C4che.pm, lib/Autom4te/ChannelDefs.pm,
lib/Autom4te/General.pm, lib/Autom4te/Request.pm,
lib/autom4te.in, lib/autoscan/autoscan.pre,
lib/emacs/autoconf-mode.el, lib/emacs/autotest-mode.el,
lib/freeze.mk, tests/atlocal.in, tests/autoscan.at,
tests/autotest.at, tests/base.at, tests/c.at,
tests/compile.at, tests/erlang.at, tests/foreign.at,
tests/fortran.at, tests/local.at, tests/m4sh.at,
tests/m4sugar.at, tests/mktests.sh, tests/semantics.at,
tests/statesave.m4, tests/suite.at, tests/tools.at,
tests/torture.at, tests/wrapper.as: Bump to GPLv3+.
Diffstat (limited to 'README')
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 16 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 11 deletions
@@ -41,22 +41,16 @@ similarly for the other mailing lists. Licensing -Autoconf is released under the General Public License (GPL). +Autoconf is released under the General Public License version 3 (GPLv3+). Additionally, Autoconf includes a licensing exception in some of its source files; see the respective copyright notices for how your -project is impacted by including scripts generated by Autoconf. - -This version of Autoconf uses GPLv2+ plus the above-mentioned -exceptions for its installed executables, as described in COPYING. -Meanwhile, several source files within the Autoconf project are under -GPLv3+, as described in COPYINGv3; these files are used for building -and installing Autoconf, but are not present in the installed -programs. The entire Autoconf project will move to GPLv3+ when the -exception statements have been reformulated in terms of the Additional +project is impacted by including scripts generated by Autoconf, and the +COPYING.EXCEPTION file for the exception in terms of the Additional Permissions as described in section 7 of GPLv3. For more licensing information, see -<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html>. +<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html> and +<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/exceptions.html>. ----- |