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bug#15787: Standardize license notice?
From: |
Xue Fuqiao |
Subject: |
bug#15787: Standardize license notice? |
Date: |
Sat, 2 Nov 2013 16:13:43 +0800 |
On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> >> In some files, the license notice starts as:
>> >>
>> >> This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or
>> >> [...]
>> >>
>> >> but in some other files, the license notice starts as:
>> >>
>> >> GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
>> >> [...]
>> >
>> > The files that use the former language are files we get from other
>> > projects and distributions, such as gmulib. Making these changes in
>> > them would just mean more merge conflicts for no good reason.
>> >
>> > So please don't do this.
>>
>> I don't think so. What about regex.{h, c}?
>
> gnulib
>
>> termcap.c? tparam.c?
>
> From GNU termcap, AFAIK.
>
>> Many tests in test/automated?
>
> You will need to talk to their authors: some of thse might come from
> external repositories.
>
>> gnus-icalendar.el?
>
> Gnus is developed in a separate repository that is from time to time
> synced with Emacs. If you want to change their copyright notices,
> talk to them.
Ah, I see, thank you. (And sorry for being incorrect.)
>> and so on...
>
> Please present an exhaustive list, it is impossible to argue about "so
> on".
>
> In any case, the bulk of the files in this category are from outside
> Emacs. So even if we change a few of them, the majority should not be
> modified.
I'll look into it.
--
Best regards, Xue Fuqiao.
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/