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diff --git a/development/autoconf-archive/README b/development/autoconf-archive/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e9857f8ddf --- /dev/null +++ b/development/autoconf-archive/README @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +The GNU Autoconf Archive is a collection of more than 500 macros for +GNU Autoconf that have been contributed as free software by friendly +supporters of the cause from all over the Internet. Every single one of +those macros can be re-used without imposing any restrictions whatsoever +on the licensing of the generated configure script. In particular, it is +possible to use all those macros in configure scripts that are meant for +non-free software. This policy is unusual for a Free Software Foundation +project. The FSF firmly believes that software ought to be free, and +software licenses like the GPL are specifically designed to ensure that +derivative work based on free software must be free as well. In case of +Autoconf, however, an exception has been made, because Autoconf is at +such a pivotal position in the software development tool chain that the +benefits from having this tool available as widely as possible outweigh +the disadvantage that some authors may choose to use it, too, for +proprietary software. |