On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
I know very little of how the FSF works. From what I understand
the FSF is copyright holder, and all contributers have assigned
copyright to the FSF. The copyright statement also only mentions
the FSF.
The documentation does mentions 4 authors. It would be nice if
they could agree to it also. But I have no idea what legal
rights they have to publish this under a different license.
You are correct that all libtool maintainers and major contributors have
signed a contract which assigns rights to the FSF. Since the FSF owns
the work, the FSF would need to make the decision.