<package name="autoconf-archive" project="devel:tools:building">

  <title>A Collection of macros for GNU Autoconf</title>

  <description>

The GNU Autoconf Archive is a collection of more than 450 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.

  </description>

  <url>http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/autoconf-archive/</url>

</package>

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