On Dec 18, 2007 7:41 AM, Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At the FSF lawyers, trying to rewrite the license exceptions that are > present in autotools, so that the rewording is suitable for GPLv3+.
If there are projects out there that urgently need a new automake, where the latest released version is not good enough, and if there is an expectation that the FSF lawyers might take a while still, then would it be feasible simply to release automake under the GPLv3 *without* those troublesome exceptions? Doing so would not burden other free software projects which are already GPLv3 themselves. Just which projects are clamouring for a new automake release - and under what licence do they wish to distribute their makefiles + aclocal.m4?
