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Re: OK to distribute autoconf.texi under the GPL too?


From: Russ Allbery
Subject: Re: OK to distribute autoconf.texi under the GPL too?
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 20:06:25 -0800
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Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

> Roger Leigh of the Debian project asked whether we could dual-license
> autoconf.texi, so that it could be distributed under the terms of either
> the GFDL or the GPL.  One of his arguments is that the manual contains
> many coding examples, and it'd be nice if people could just cut-n-paste
> them into their GPLed code.  There more arguments; please see
> <http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/Position_Statement.html> for
> details.  Are there any objections or other comments about this
> proposal?

Yes, please.  I wholeheartedly support this.

-- 
Russ Allbery (address@hidden)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>




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