Hello, I agree that ‘git-version-gen’ is the way to go (there’s no licensing issue since it’s a build tool.)
The change is basically two-fold: 1. http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guile.git/tree/configure.ac#n31 2. http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guile.git/tree/Makefile.am#n76 Would you like to do that? :-) Thanks, Ludo’.