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@@ -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>. ----- |