Re: --version output change proposal

[Jim Meyering]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> According to Jim Meyering on 3/19/2007 2:45 AM:
>> Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> address@hidden (Karl Berry) writes:
>>>> If any comments, let me know before we inscribe it into standards.texi ...
>>> I suppose lib/version.c in gnulib should be modified too?
>>
>> Yep, version-etc.c  I'll wait a day or two, in case things change.
>
> Any objections to installing this?  I'd really like to cut M4 1.4.9 this
> week, and if I can include this patch, it would start the ball rolling for
> released programs with the improved --version output.
>
> 2007-03-22  Eric Blake  <address@hidden>
>
>       * lib/version-etc.c (version_etc_va): Update license wording to
>       be more concise.  Recommended by Richard Stallman.

I was waiting for it to be official, but if you're in a hurry, go ahead.