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Re: copyright message with(out) directives


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: copyright message with(out) directives
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:52:42 -0700
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address@hidden (Karl Berry) writes:

>     +the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.\n\
>
> I've never seen a url in this message before, for any program.  Not that
> I object, I guess it makes sense, but it seems new?

Yes, it is new.

> You said you found this in the coding standards, but I'm not seeing
> it ... ?  Not that it's a big deal.

No, actually, I didn't see it there.  While I was changing coreutils
to conform to the new coding standards, I noticed it was nicer to put
in a URL there.

The coding standards' example says only "see the files named COPYING".
That made sense back in 1985, but in 2005?  (And why is "files" plural?)

So -- how about if we change this text in standards.texi:

  For more information about these matters,
  see the files named COPYING.

into this text instead:

  For more information about these matters,
  see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.

This text is merely part an example (it's not a requirement), but the
in my opinion the URL is far more likely to be useful in practice
these days.




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