Richard Stallman writes: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > Who originated the main changes? Basically, who is the person who > recommends them, and on what basis?
That was me, on basis of the experience that I had to get Dezyne accepted to Savannah, which took almost 6 months and then needed an overruling to finish. The changes intend to help smoothen that process and document current standard practice of GNU packages, so that new packages would not have to be unnecessarily strict and resolve to doing silly things in order to be accepted. As an example, having data files (to the eye of most everyone except the evaluater "uninteresting files") of ~15 lines without individual copyright header was a hard blocker, even though Dezyne came with a README file, and later also a REUSE spec (https://reuse.software) explaining their copyright and license situation. And even though this is standar practice amongst GNU packages. Greetings, Janneke -- Janneke Nieuwenhuizen <jann...@gnu.org> | GNU LilyPond https://LilyPond.org Freelance IT https://www.JoyOfSource.com | Avatar® https://AvatarAcademy.com
