| 1 | Autoconf was originally written by David MacKenzie, with help from | 
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| 2 | Franc,ois Pinard, Karl Berry, Richard Pixley, Ian Lance Taylor, Roland | 
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| 3 | McGrath, Noah Friedman, david d zuhn, and many others. | 
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| 4 |  | 
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| 5 | Ben Elliston next took over the maintenance, facing a huge Autoconf | 
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| 6 | backlog that had been piling up since the departure of David. | 
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| 7 |  | 
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| 8 | Today, there are no less than five maintainers: Akim Demaille, Paul | 
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| 9 | Eggert, Jim Meyering, Alexandre Oliva, and Tom Tromey, especially | 
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| 10 | helped by Lars J. Aas, Mo DeJong, Steven G. Johnson, Matthew | 
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| 11 | D. Langston, Pavel Roskin, and many others listed in the THANKS file. | 
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| 12 |  | 
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| 13 | ----- | 
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| 14 |  | 
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| 15 | Copyright 1996, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. | 
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| 16 |  | 
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| 17 | This file is part of GNU Autoconf. | 
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| 18 |  | 
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| 19 | GNU Autoconf is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify | 
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| 20 | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by | 
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| 21 | the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) | 
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| 22 | any later version. | 
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| 23 |  | 
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| 24 | GNU Autoconf is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | 
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| 25 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | 
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| 26 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the | 
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| 27 | GNU General Public License for more details. | 
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| 28 |  | 
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| 29 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | 
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| 30 | along with autoconf; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to | 
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| 31 | the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, | 
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| 32 | Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. | 
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