From: Bruno Haible Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2024 12:10:46 +0000 (+0200) Subject: doc: Correct statement about license of m4/*.m4 files. X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3e289f1a2a50dc293dd45e3a3d2ba79a78d7fcc1;p=gnulib.git 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/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 4511aa310c..da6060458b 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2024-08-30 Bruno Haible + + 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. + 2024-08-30 Bruno Haible sigsegv: Clarify license of the *.m4 files. 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 @@ gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it, 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