Re: auto-inserting COPYING

2008-12-11 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Karl, Peter, * Peter Johansson wrote on Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 03:24:18AM CET: > Karl Berry wrote: >> I just learned that in some circumstances automake will insert a COPYING >> file if it's missing (albeit with a warning), e.g., at make dist? (I >> didn't look into the precise details.) Never

Re: auto-inserting COPYING

2008-12-11 Thread Peter Johansson
Hi Karl, Karl Berry wrote: I just learned that in some circumstances automake will insert a COPYING file if it's missing (albeit with a warning), e.g., at make dist? (I didn't look into the precise details.) This is a very old feature and according to NEWS it was actually deprecated in vers

auto-inserting COPYING

2008-12-11 Thread Karl Berry
I just learned that in some circumstances automake will insert a COPYING file if it's missing (albeit with a warning), e.g., at make dist? (I didn't look into the precise details.) I expect there's probably been plenty of discussion about it that I'm unaware of, but to my naive eyes, this is simp