ANNOUNCING AFFLIB 3.7

I'm happy to announce the release of AFFLIB 3.7. Significant
highlights of the release include the following:

- Copyright Clarification.  AFFLIB was originally a collaboration
  between Simson L. Garfinkel and Basis Technology and under the terms
  of that collaboration the copyright was jointly held. The original
  library was licensed under the 4-part Berkeley license.

  Work done on AFFLIB by Simson Garfinkel after December 26, 2006 was
  done within the context of my employment with the US Government and,
  as such, is not subject to copyright.

  All of the files in the current release have been examined to
  determine whether they are licensed under the four-part license or
  if they are in the public domain.

- Move to github.org.  As I am now largely working on other projects,
  I am moving AFFLIB from afflib.org to github.org.  This will make it
  easier for others to perform maintenance on this release as
  necessary for the eventual transition to AFFv4.
  
There are no other significant changes in this release from release
3.6.15.



RELEASE ENGINEERING

Although it is possible to do releases on github using the git tag[1]
interface, I will still be making digitally signed releases and
putting them in the github downloads[2] section.

[1] http://gitref.org/branching/#tag
[2] https://github.com/blog/742-new-uploader-downloads-screen



USING GIT

The move to git makes it easier for potential AFFLIB developers and
users to directly access the AFFLIB development tree. For those of you
who are new to git, here are some simple commands that you can use:

You can check out a copy of the source code with:

    $ git clone git://github.com/simsong/AFFLIBv3.git

You can then keep your copy of AFFLIB up-to-date with:

    $ get pull

If you are working in the repository, you will need to make your own
configure script. Do that with these commands:

    $ sh bootstrap.sh
    $ ./configure
    $ make


Other git commands that may be useful:
 
    $ git add [-f] filename              (adds a file)
    $ git commit                         (commits to local repo)
    $ git push                           (push back to clone)