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FSF GNU autoconf as packaged for Debian GNU/Linux.
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This package is assembled from the GNU sources found in
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ftp.gnu.org:/pub/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.50.tar.gz
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Packaged originally by Mark Eichin <eichin@kitten.gen.ma.us>.
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Currently maintained by Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@debian.org>.
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Upstream copyright notice:
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Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996 Free Software Foundation,
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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
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General Public License for more details.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307,
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As a special exception, the Free Software Foundation gives unlimited
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permission to copy, distribute and modify the configure scripts that
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are the output of Autoconf. You need not follow the terms of the GNU
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General Public License when using or distributing such scripts, even
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though portions of the text of Autoconf appear in them. The GNU
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General Public License (GPL) does govern all other use of the material
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that constitutes the Autoconf program.
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Certain portions of the Autoconf source text are designed to be copied
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(in certain cases, depending on the input) into the output of
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Autoconf. We call these the "data" portions. The rest of the
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Autoconf source text consists of comments plus executable code that
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decides which of the data portions to output in any given case. We
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call these comments and executable code the "non-data" portions.
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Autoconf never copies any of the non-data portions into its output.
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This special exception to the GPL applies to versions of Autoconf
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released by the Free Software Foundation. When you make and
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distribute a modified version of Autoconf, you may extend this special
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exception to the GPL to apply to your modified version as well,
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*unless* your modified version has the potential to copy into its
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output some of the text that was the non-data portion of the version
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that you started with. (In other words, unless your change moves or
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copies text from the non-data portions to the data portions.) If your
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modification has such potential, you must delete any notice of this
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special exception to the GPL from your modified version.
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Autoconf was originally written by David MacKenzie, with help from
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Franc,ois Pinard, Karl Berry, Richard Pixley, Ian Lance Taylor, Roland
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McGrath, Noah Friedman, david d zuhn, and many others.
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Ben Elliston next took over the maintenance, facing a huge Autoconf
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backlog that had been piling up since the departure of David.
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Today, there are no less than five maintainers: Akim Demaille, Paul
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Eggert, Jim Meyering, Alexandre Oliva, and Tom Tromey, especially
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helped by Lars J. Aas, Mo DeJong, Steven G. Johnson, Matthew
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D. Langston, Pavel Roskin, and many others listed in the THANKS file.
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