On Sun, 25 Nov 2018 at 12:07, Ineiev <[email protected]> wrote: > Recently, Samuel Thibault pointed out that some parts of GNU hello > don't follow guidelines for GNU package maintainers very closely. > I checked the most recent release, hello-2.10, and it seemed > to me that a few files weren't arranged as recommmended in [0]. > > [0] https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html.gz#Legal-Matters > > (I don't report against the current VCS HEAD because the results > of bootstrapping could depend on the versions of software used.) > > In short, the guidelines say, > > * every file should have valid copyright and license notices; > * if the format of the file has no place for comments, these notices > should be written in a README file in the same directory; > * if the file is generated, the notice should at least say that it's > generated and what files it's generated from; > * if the file is copied from another package (including GNU ones), > the maintainer who copies the file should ensure its compliance. > > So, > > contrib/de_franconian_po.txt > po/fa.po po/he.po po/it.po po/ka.po po/nn.po po/pt.po > lack a license notice. > > ABOUT-NLS > build-aux/prefix-gnulib-mk > contrib/evolution.txt > lib/memchr.valgrind > po/bg.gmo po/ca.gmo po/da.gmo po/de.gmo po/el.gmo po/eo.gmo po/es.gmo > po/et.gmo po/eu.gmo po/fa.gmo po/fi.gmo po/fr.gmo po/ga.gmo po/gl.gmo > po/he.gmo po/hr.gmo po/hu.gmo po/id.gmo po/it.gmo po/ja.gmo po/ka.gmo > po/ko.gmo po/lv.gmo po/ms.gmo po/nb.gmo po/nl.gmo po/nn.gmo po/pl.gmo > po/pt_BR.gmo po/pt.gmo po/ro.gmo po/ru.gmo po/sk.gmo po/sl.gmo > po/sr.gmo po/sv.gmo po/th.gmo po/tr.gmo po/uk.gmo po/vi.gmo > po/zh_CN.gmo po/zh_TW.gmo > po/hello.pot > po/Makevars > po/[email protected] po/[email protected] > po/insert-header.sin po/remove-potcdate.sin po/Rules-quot > ChangeLog > NEWS > README-release > lack copyright and license notices. > > Do I misinterpret anything?
Sounds about right. I'll sort copyright and license notices sometime soonish. And I suppose GNU Hello release is needed after that. -- Sami Kerola http://www.iki.fi/kerolasa/
