Re: License notices

[Tom Howard]

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Hi Peter,

On 26/01/2005, at 9:02 AM, Peter Simons wrote:

>> I think you may have misunderstood what I'm trying to do.
>> The @license keyword is a _temporary_ addition that has no
>> other purpose but to be replaced by a verbatim text license.
>> Once all macros have their correct @license assigned, I run
>> a tool which strips the @license tag and adds the
>> appropriate disclaimer instead, right at the top of the m4
>> source, exactly like it is in your macro.
>>
>> After that, I say "cvs commit", @license is gone, and _all_
>> files have a correct disclaimer that looks alike everywhere
>> so that I can parse it reliably if I want to.
>>
>> @license is not meant to be a permanent addition to the
>> format. The verbatim license is supposed to appear in the
>> sources in CVS as well as on the web site.

Why didn't you say so from the beginning? *rips hair out*.  We have
been debating over nothing.

Cheers,

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Tom Howard

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