Karl Berry wrote:
In trying to prepare the release of (gasp) GNU Hello, I'm finding that
some gnulib files are being left out of the distribution tar.gz,
specifically the getopt-related ones. It looks like this is because the
gnulib Makefile.am just has:
libgnu_a_SOURCES =
libgnu_a_LIBADD
Hello Karl,
* Karl Berry wrote on Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 03:36:11PM CEST:
In trying to prepare the release of (gasp) GNU Hello, I'm finding that
some gnulib files are being left out of the distribution tar.gz,
specifically the getopt-related ones. It looks like this is because the
gnulib
Paul Eggert eggert at CS.UCLA.EDU writes:
Eric Blake ebb9 at byu.net writes:
Meanwhile, is this patch acceptable, which updates the _LIBC
portions of the error module to resemble CVS glibc more closely, so
that I have fewer spurious diffs to filter through?
Yes, and thanks for doing
I installed this. The only part that might be iffy is the copyright
notice, but we have to have _some_ copyright notice or otherwise the
file isn't free, and the GFDL without any required texts seems most
appropriate.
Come to think of it, there are several other gnulib files where the
copyright
I installed the following to add and/or fix the copyright notices of
modules that I help maintain, or for which I expect Simon won't mind
adding a notice.
I'll send out two other messages on this subject, one for Bruno and
one for Karl, to address the files they maintain.
The modules files were
Karl, can you please update the FDL license version iin standards.texi
and make-stds.texi? Also, while you're at it there's some trailing
white space to remove. Here's a patch. Thanks.
2006-08-14 Paul Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* make-stds.texi, standards.texi: Update FDL version
Paul Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I installed this. The only part that might be iffy is the copyright
notice, but we have to have _some_ copyright notice or otherwise the
file isn't free, and the GFDL without any required texts seems most
appropriate.
The file is only about a page, and
Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
would you mind a list of URLs pointing to general CVS
instructions rather than a web interface? Usually the latter is only a
couple of clicks away from the former, but the other way is difficult to
find.
Might make sense if you're interested in different things than I
+This file is free documentation; the Free Software Foundation
+gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
+with or without modifications, as long as this notice is preserved.
The text which rms specified for such things (ensconced in
maintain.texi) is:
Copying and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl Berry) writes:
+This file is free documentation; the Free Software Foundation
+gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
+with or without modifications, as long as this notice is preserved.
The text which rms specified for such things
Paul Eggert wrote:
Bruno, can you please review the following patches to fix the
remaining copyright-notice problems in gnulib? I'll install them if
that will save you time.
All fine with me (since, as far as I understood, the GFDL with no
Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl Berry) writes:
The text which rms specified for such things (ensconced in
maintain.texi) is:
Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
notice and this notice are
we should be generating it automatically from findutils
My recollection is that James does generate it from findutils, and
checks in the new version to gnulib, or sends it to me, or something
like that. James will inform us, I'm sure.
I am inclined to finesse the license issue by using the
There's one more gnulib file that lacks a copyright notice:
gnulib/doc/regexprops-generic.texi. I'm wondering: who uses that
file? (There's no ChangeLog entry for it.) If the file's not needed,
I'm inclined to remove it, along with gnulib/doc/README.\
CVS Head of M4 wants to use it:
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