Re: fdl-1.3

2008-11-11 Thread Karl Berry
I added an entry to gnulib/config/srclist.txt so that fdl.texi will be synced from the gnustandards project. Having a separate copy floating around on its own can't be a good thing. karl

Re: fdl-1.3

2008-11-11 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Bruno Haible on 11/11/2008 4:25 AM: > Eric Blake wrote: >> It just made my life as >> autoconf maintainer easier to be able to add a line to cfg.mk that does >> 'cp gnulib/doc/fdl.texi autoconf/doc/', > > This will work also when fdl.texi

Re: fdl-1.3

2008-11-11 Thread Bruno Haible
Eric Blake wrote: > It just made my life as > autoconf maintainer easier to be able to add a line to cfg.mk that does > 'cp gnulib/doc/fdl.texi autoconf/doc/', This will work also when fdl.texi is simply a copy of fdl-1.3.texi. Bruno

Re: fdl-1.3

2008-11-11 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
> A symlink?! This can only cause problems: > - When 'git' is run on a Windows system (not Cygwin), AFAIK there are > no symlinks. In which case, git treats the file as a single line text, whose contents would correspond to the symlink, but the contents of the git tree make

Re: fdl-1.3

2008-11-10 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Bruno Haible on 11/10/2008 8:30 PM: > Eric Blake wrote: >> I added a symlink fdl.texi >> ... >> Here's what I'm committing. >> new file mode 12 > > A symlink?! This can only cause problems: > - When 'git' is run on a Windows system

Re: fdl-1.3

2008-11-10 Thread Bruno Haible
Eric Blake wrote: > I added a symlink fdl.texi > ... > Here's what I'm committing. > new file mode 12 A symlink?! This can only cause problems: - When 'git' is run on a Windows system (not Cygwin), AFAIK there are no symlinks. - When 'git' is run on Linux on a vfat file system, there a

Re: fdl-1.3

2008-11-10 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Karl Berry on 11/10/2008 5:01 PM: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] fdl.texi > [EMAIL PROTECTED] fdl-1.3.texi > > I think standards.texi and maintain.texi should include the generic > fdl.texi. I updated fdl.texi in the gnustandards repo to be

Re: fdl-1.3

2008-11-10 Thread Karl Berry
[EMAIL PROTECTED] fdl.texi [EMAIL PROTECTED] fdl-1.3.texi I think standards.texi and maintain.texi should include the generic fdl.texi. I updated fdl.texi in the gnustandards repo to be 1.3. As for gnulib, I see that we have only specifically-numbered versions of the {a,l,}gpl-*.texi and

Re: fdl-1.3

2008-11-10 Thread Eric Blake
Karl Berry freefriends.org> writes: > > > Subject: [PATCH] Add GFDLv1.3. > Will standards.texi be swapped to use this new license? > > I presume so, but I should ask rms. Karl, I see with your latest autoupdate[1] that upstream standards.texi now claims to use FDL 1.3, but still @incl

Re: fdl-1.3

2008-11-10 Thread Simon Josefsson
Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Simon Josefsson josefsson.org> writes: > >> > Meanwhile, Simon, since you were just there, can you update the gnulib >> > manual to FDL 1.3+? >> >> I'm not the copyright holder, but I expect concerned people will comment >> if there is any problem in doin

Re: fdl-1.3

2008-11-10 Thread Eric Blake
Simon Josefsson josefsson.org> writes: > > Meanwhile, Simon, since you were just there, can you update the gnulib > > manual to FDL 1.3+? > > I'm not the copyright holder, but I expect concerned people will comment > if there is any problem in doing this, so I have pushed the patch below. You d

Re: fdl-1.3

2008-11-04 Thread Bruno Haible
Karl Berry wrote: > I was surprised to see the "1.2" used in so many places. The Emacs > manual, for example, has this in subfiles: > > @c This is part of the Emacs manual. > @c Copyright (C) 1985, 1986, 1987, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, > @c 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 20

Re: fdl-1.3

2008-11-04 Thread Karl Berry
true for getdate.texi: the file is added to packages via the getdate Getdate is a special case. It is one of the very very few .texi files that is actually used in multiple manuals. That is, I'm not aware of any other manuals that use alloca*, etc., and given the content, I can't really pict

Re: fdl-1.3

2008-11-04 Thread Simon Josefsson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl Berry) writes: > I was surprised to see the "1.2" used in so many places. The Emacs > manual, for example, has this in subfiles: > > @c This is part of the Emacs manual. > @c Copyright (C) 1985, 1986, 1987, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, > @c 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,

Re: fdl-1.3

2008-11-04 Thread Karl Berry
so I have pushed the patch below. Thanks. Not that I'm the copyright holder either. doc/alloca-opt.texi |2 +- doc/alloca.texi |2 +- doc/c-ctype.texi|2 +- ... I was surprised to see the "1.2" used in so many places. The Emacs m

Re: fdl-1.3

2008-11-04 Thread Simon Josefsson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl Berry) writes: > > Subject: [PATCH] Add GFDLv1.3. > Will standards.texi be swapped to use this new license? > > I presume so, but I should ask rms. > > Meanwhile, Simon, since you were just there, can you update the gnulib > manual to FDL 1.3+? I'm not the copyrigh

Re: fdl-1.3

2008-11-04 Thread Karl Berry
> Subject: [PATCH] Add GFDLv1.3. Will standards.texi be swapped to use this new license? I presume so, but I should ask rms. Meanwhile, Simon, since you were just there, can you update the gnulib manual to FDL 1.3+? Thanks, Karl

Re: fdl-1.3

2008-11-04 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Simon Josefsson on 11/4/2008 1:13 AM: > I've pushed this. > > /Simon > >>From 4df5306dfde4dea1d9b4c027defe8471d0fc62c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 09:12:32 +0100 > Subject:

Re: fdl-1.3

2008-11-04 Thread Simon Josefsson
Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've pushed this. And this... /Simon >From c2deb4e15018dc6569cb9c42d0592854122bdde8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 09:13:59 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Add modules/fdl-1.3, forgotten in last commi