branch: elpa-admin
commit 9822a67feabe5a5c09663ac11dad5c787e450e38
Author: Phil Sainty <psai...@orcon.net.nz>
Commit: Lars Ingebrigtsen <la...@gnus.org>
README: Mention that the copyright in ELPA is with the FSF
* README: Mention that the copyright in ELPA is with the FSF
(bug#23972).
---
README | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/README b/README
index 9589009..39d07f6 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -160,6 +160,12 @@ Furthermore we recommend the following:
- Use lexical-binding if it all possible.
- Try and fix the warnings emitted when compiling the package with a recent
Emacs.
+The Copyright notice should specify "Free Software Foundation, Inc." as
+the copyright holder. Ensure that all the code has the proper copyright:
+if it is not your own code, make sure the author has signed the relevant
+copyright papers (for non-trivial contributions), and indicate the author
+correctly in the commit.
+
** External branches
The above instructions are enough to add regular packages, those that
