Follow-up Comment #5, task #15279 (project administration): GNU documentation explicitly says that files like README and ChangLog also should have copyright and license notices <https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Notices.html>. For copyright purposes, files more than ten lines long are copyrightable, and your ChangeLog is much longer.
In your new tarball, README still has no copyright notice; COPYING.CC0 has neither copyright nor license notice. I'm not sure about tests/*: each file is small, but they do sum up in something copyrightable. I think one may add notices even when the files are that small. In any case, the form of license notice from the GPL should be used: currently, COPYRIGHT suggests that only the GPL version from COPYING may be used, which is incompatible with Savannah hosting requirements. Then, to avoid confusion, I suggest listing all relevant files when stating their terms in a README. Also, I really dislike the wording "Unless otherwise stated". In its extreme, it may mean that the user has to look for additional conditions all imaginable and unimaginable places, inside and outside your tarball. I believe you should know your terms and be able to state them at once. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.nongnu.org/task/?15279> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.nongnu.org/