Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r116644: ChangeLog entries should be usable without the VCS

[David Kastrup]

Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 6:28 PM, Glenn Morris <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> The ChangeLog should be understandable to someone sitting there with
>> just the source tarball and no VCS.
>
> As previously stated, I disagree because I don't think these people
> are the real target.

The tarball _is_ the corresponding source to a version of Emacs.  That's
what the GPL will guarantee to provide.  Nothing else is guaranteed to
be available to somebody getting binaries to some version of Emacs.

As long as we decide it is part of the corresponding source (I don't see
that it has to according to the definition of the GPL) and distribute it
with it, it should be useful on its own.

-- 
David Kastrup