On 01/28/2011 02:24 PM, Karl Berry wrote: > Paul's original > idea seems basically sound ...
Thanks, but your argument suggests that my original idea was wrong, since it would mean that files like lib/warn-on-use.h would be distributed without copyright notices. If I'm not mistaken, warn-on-use.h is LGPLv2+, and all the files it's copied into are either LGPLv2+, or LGPLv3+, or GPL2+, or GPL3+, and all the files in question are copyright FSF, so it's OK to copy warn-on-use.h's contents into these files while stripping the copyright notice. Still, it would be nice if the makefile rule didn't need to create a file that is a copy of warn-on-use.h, but without its copyright notice. This could be done, I expect, by having 'sed' read the original warn-on-use.h, and having it pipe its output through another 'sed' that removes unnecessary copyright notices.
