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@@ -40,6 +40,25 @@ running `autoconf --version'. Archives of bug-autoconf@gnu.org can be found in <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/>, and similarly for the other mailing lists. +Licensing + +Autoconf is released under the General Public License (GPL). +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 +Permissions as described in section 7 of GPLv3. + +For more licensing information, see +<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html>. + ----- Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, |