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GNU Autoconf
This package is derived from sources obtained at:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/autoconf
The Autoconf upstream tarball has been modified by removing most of
the Texinfo documentation. This is because it is subject to the GNU
Free Documentation License (FDL), which Debian regards as non-free
when invariant sections, such as the front-cover and back-cover texts
in the Autoconf, are included.
Packaged originally by Mark Eichin <eichin@kitten.gen.ma.us>.
Currently maintained by Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@debian.org>.
Changes for packaging are licensed under the GNU GPL.
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Licensing
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Additionally, Autoconf includes a licensing exception in some of its
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project is impacted by including scripts generated by Autoconf, and the
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Permissions as described in section 7 of GPLv3.
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Version 3.0, 18 August 2009
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. <http://fsf.org/>
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
This Exception is an additional permission under section 7 of the GNU
General Public License, version 3 ("GPLv3"). It applies to a given
file that bears a notice placed by the copyright holder of the file
stating that the file is governed by GPLv3 along with this Exception.
The purpose of this Exception is to allow distribution of Autoconf's
typical output under terms of the recipient's choice (including
proprietary).
0. Definitions
"Covered Code" is the source or object code of a version of Autoconf
that is a covered work under this License.
"Normally Copied Code" for a version of Autoconf means all parts of
its Covered Code which that version can copy from its code (i.e., not
from its input file) into its minimally verbose, non-debugging and
non-tracing output.
"Ineligible Code" is Covered Code that is not Normally Copied Code.
1. Grant of Additional Permission.
You have permission to propagate output of Autoconf, even if such
propagation would otherwise violate the terms of GPLv3. However, if
by modifying Autoconf you cause any Ineligible Code of the version you
received to become Normally Copied Code of your modified version, then
you void this Exception for the resulting covered work. If you convey
that resulting covered work, you must remove this Exception in accordance
with the second paragraph of Section 7 of GPLv3.
2. No Weakening of Autoconf Copyleft.
The availability of this Exception does not imply any general presumption
that third-party software is unaffected by the copyleft requirements of
the license of Autoconf.
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/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3
The authors of Autoconf are listed in the AUTHORS file, whose contents
are reproduced here:
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Authors of GNU Autoconf.
Autoconf was originally written by David MacKenzie, with help from
François Pinard, Karl Berry, Richard Pixley, Ian Lance Taylor, Roland
McGrath, Noah Friedman, david d zuhn, and many others.
Ben Elliston next took over the maintenance, facing a huge Autoconf
backlog that had been piling up since the departure of David. Other
maintainers have included Akim Demaille, Jim Meyering, Alexandre
Oliva, and Tom Tromey, with plenty of contributions from Lars J. Aas,
Mo DeJong, Steven G. Johnson, Matthew D. Langston, Pavel Roskin.
Today, the primary maintainers are Paul Eggert and Eric Blake, with
help from Ralf Wildenhues, Stepan Kasal, and Benoit Sigoure. Many
other people have contributed, as listed in the THANKS file.
The following contributors have warranted legal paper exchanges with
the Free Software Foundation for their contributions to GNU Autoconf.
This list results from searching for AUTOCONF in the file
/gd/gnuorg/copyright.list on the fencepost.gnu.org machine.
David J. MacKenzie djm@gnu.org 1991-07-09
James L. Avera ? 1993-10-04
Roland McGrath roland@gnu.org 1994-06-24
Noah Friedman friedman@gnu.org 1994-07-15
Francois Pinard pinard@iro.umontreal.ca 1997-02-02
Thomas E. Dickey dickey@clark.net 1998-01-11
Matthew D. Langston langston@slac.stanford.edu 1998-09-29
Mark Elbrecht snowball3@usa.net 1999-01-11
Akim Demaille akim@gnu.org 1999-02-02
Pavel Roskin pavel_roskin@geocities.com 1999-02-24
Alexandre Oliva oliva@dcc.unicamp.br 1999-03-26
Thomas Tanner tanner@ffii.org 1999-06-23
Gary V. Vaughan gary@gnu.org 2000-01-10
Joseph Samuel Myers jsm28@cam.ac.uk 2000-03-13
Lars J. Aas larsa@sim.no 2000-07-07
Morten Eriksen mortene@sim.no 2000-07-07
Martin Wilck martin@tropos.de 2000-07-12
Paul Eggert eggert@twinsun.com 2000-10-13
Alexandre Duret-Lutz duret_g@epita.fr 2001-02-12
Tim Van Holder tim.van.holder@pandora.be 2001-02-13
Christian Marquardt marq@gfz-potsdam.de 2001-02-19
Derek R. Price dprice@collab.net 2001-03-12
Markus Kuhn Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk 2001-07-07
Erik Lindahl erik@theophys.kth.se 2001-08-22
Hans-Peter Nilsson hp@bitrange.com 2001-10-24
Paul Wagland paul@wagland.net 2001-10-30
Paolo Bonzini bonzini@gnu.org 2001-11-08
Nishio Futoshi fut_nis@d3.dion.ne.jp 2002-01-23
Federico G. Schwindt fgsch@openbsd.org 2002-05-21
Mark D. Roth roth@feep.net 2002-05-28
Greg McGary greg@mcgary.org 2002-06-05
Charles Stephen Wilson cwilson@ece.gatech.edu 2002-07-25
Robert Bernstein rocky@panix.com 2002-08-20
Assar Westerlund assar@kth.se 2002-09-13
Scott Bambrough sbambrough@storm.ca 2002-09-24
Richard Dawe rich@phekda.freeserve.co.uk 2003-01-23
Andreas Buening andreas.buening@nexgo.de 2003-02-18
Raja R. Harinath harinath@acm.org 2003-02-25
Ilya Zakharevich ilya@Math.Berkeley.EDU 2003-03-11
Kaveh Ghazi ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu 2003-03-15
Felix Lee felix.1@canids.net 2003-03-31
Nathanael Nerode neroden@twcny.rr.com 2003-04-04
Gavin Puche user42@zip.com.au 2003-04-10
Steven Glenn Johnson stevenj@alum.mit.edu 2003-07-26
Bernardo Innocenti bernie@codewiz.org 2003-07-31
Albert Marsden Chin-A-Young china@thewrittenword.com 2003-08-02
Ralf Corsepius corsepiu@faw.uni-ulm.de 2003-09-03
Scott Remnant scott@netsplit.com 2003-10-04
Daniel Jacobowitz dan@debian.org 2003-10-17
Kevin Fleming kpfleming@backtobasicsmgmt.com 2003-11-17
John David Anglin dave.anglin@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca 2004-01-21
Eric Sunshine sunshine@sunshineco.com 2004-01-25
Ralf Wildenhues Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de 2004-02-12
Noah Jeffrey Misch noah@cs.caltech.edu 2004-07-05
Thorsten Glaser tg@66h.42h.de 2004-10-11
Peter O'Gorman peter@pogma.com 2004-11-14
Toshio Ernie Kuratomi toshio@tiki-lounge.com 2004-11-17
Roger Leigh rleigh@whinlatter.ukfsn.org 2004-12-09
Ian Lance Taylor ian@airs.com 2004-12-22
Daniel Manthey dan_manthey@partech.com 2005-02-14
Gregorio Guidi greg_g@gentoo.org 2005-03-03
Bruno Haible bruno@clisp.org 2005-06-12
Toby Oliver Hilary White tow21@cam.ac.uk 2005-10-18
Eric Benjamin Blake ebb9@byu.net 2006-01-18
Romain Lenglet romain.lenglet@laposte.net 2006-02-10
Markus Duft markus.duft@salomon.at 2006-08-03
Robert Schiele rschiele@gmail.com 2006-09-12
Joel Edward Denny jdenny@clemson.edu 2006-09-15
Helge Deller deller@gmx.de 2007-02-01
Benoit Sigoure tsuna@lrde.epita.fr 2007-04-20
Bob Proulx bob@proulx.com 2007-06-25
Bruce Korb bkorb@gnu.org 2008-05-06
Benjamin Pfaff blp@gnu.org 2008-09-29
Peter Breitenlohner peb@mppmu.mpg.de 2009-08-18
Stefano Lattarini stefano.lattarini@gmail.com 2009-10-01
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