Re: inetutils ChangeLog doc/Makefile.am doc/inetuti...

[Simon Josefsson]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> James Youngman wrote:
>> This conflates two separate issues though:
>> 1. Which license the developer chooses to use and their strategy for 
>> updating it
>> 2. The technical process by which the project manages files from
>> gnulib (e.g. checking them into the repository for their own project
>> versus not doing that)
>> 
>> I think it would be great it exercising a deliberate choice on (1)
>> didn't force my hand on (2).
>
> So, are you in favour of removing the 'fdl' module (and let people use
> gnulib-tool --copy-file regardless of their updating strategy), or for
> creating modules 'fdl-1.2', 'fdl-1.3' (and let people use gnulib-tool
> --import for them)?

A fdl-1.3 module already exists.

The question is whether to remove the 'fdl' module from gnulib, and ask
maintainers (in NEWS) to instead import a specific fdl version.

/Simon