Ben Ellison

Ben Ellison works for Cygnus Solutions, one of the leading Open Source software companies. He is the current maintainer of GNU Autoconf.

Ian Lance Taylor

Ian Lance Taylor has been contributing to free software since 1990. His GNU/Taylor UUCP package was an early beta test for autoconf in 1991. He has contributed many patches to autoconf, including rewriting the support for a separate config.h file. He contributed support for conditionals in automake. He is currently the maintainer of the GNU binutils, which was one of the first widely distributed free software packages to adopt libtool. He worked on free software for many years at Cygnus Solutions, and is a founder of Zembu Labs.

Tom Tromey

Tom Tromey is the current maintainer and a leading authority on automake, authoring much of the online documentation on this tool.

Gary V. Vaughn

Gary Vaughan is one of the current maintainers of libtool. He has contributed patches to autoconf for close to five years, and to automake and libtool since their inceptions. He is currently working on making libtool an Open Source tool for NT developers.