Re: some issues in the latest Autoconf

[Paul Eggert]

Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:

> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2007-08/msg00007.html>
> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2007-09/msg00000.html>
> Some message on gnu-prog discusses this, too, and mentions why it's
> taking them longer than expected.

As a legal matter, this should not hold up any release of Autoconf.
We are already publishing Autoconf code via savannah with the old
wording; we will not give up any rights by releasing a tarball with
the exact same wording.  When the lawyers tell us which new wording to
use, we can use that, but this wording change can be independent of
our tarball release schedule.