Follow-up Comment #25, task #15078 (project administration): > it isn't clear for me how it turned out that files like po/de.gmo still lack copyright and license notices.
That's because I have basically never seen a single source tarball put copyright and license notices there. Anyway, I have now added a po/README note there, and uploaded to http://dept-info.labri.fr/~thibault/tmp/speechd.tgz To tell the truth, I am really surprised by all these problems around gettext. I mean, this can't be the first package being submitted to savannah which contains gettext translations which pose these ground license and copyright questions. Put another way, for somebody who wants to create a package following the GNU recommendations, she would notably take the GNU hello package as an example, since it's meant to be that, and thus use gettext, and then fall in all the traps we have been discussing recently. GNU hello and everything that it uses really needs to be fixed, otherwise one can not hope to see anybody be able to submit a package to savannah. I know you said you are just requesting to follow Savannah policies, but the Savanah policy are part of the general GNU project. As seen from outside, the current situation (just following the GNU Coding Standards, but then being rejected from savannah due to issues in existing GNU packages) looks very incoherent and doesn't help promoting the GNU goals. I'm not saying that the savannah administrators should fix all packages themselves, or even fix the GNU hello package themselves, but they should make sure, by submitting appropriate bug reports, that the GNU hello package always follows the savannah policies, so it can be taken as an example which respects all policies. You can not expect newcomers to have to do this, that'd not a way to greet them to the GNU project. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/task/?15078> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/
