On 6/1/20 11:00 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
>> Also, there were some '.'s that should be changed to '@.' in the license
>> Texinfo files.
> I don't know whom to contact to change these.
I'd write g...@gnu.org.
Asher Gordon wrote on 2020-05-17:
> >> I also fixed a minor issue where "VCS" ended with
> >> "." rather than "@." (see (texinfo) Ending a Sentence).
> >
> > I won't spend time on a single instance of this very minor issue. But if
> > you want to submit a patch that fixes all instances of this issu
Asher Gordon writes:
> Perhaps Texinfo should change its heuristics so that a '.' preceding a
> capital letter always starts a sentence, even when it is preceded by a
> capital letter.
I just realized that this would treat names such as "J. Random Hacker"
incorrectly. That would then have to be
Hi Bruno,
Bruno Haible writes:
>> I also fixed a minor issue where "VCS" ended with
>> "." rather than "@." (see (texinfo) Ending a Sentence).
>
> I won't spend time on a single instance of this very minor issue. But if
> you want to submit a patch that fixes all instances of this issue, I'll
>
Hi Asher,
> I think the Texinfo format licenses are human readable
> enough that it is sufficient to just include those.
This is a hairy question. I don't know whether a judge will be convinced
by the presence of a Texinfo formatted license, when no plain-text
and no PDF version of the license is
Hi Bruno,
Bruno Haible writes:
> Now it has completed, and it turned out you were confusing the license
> texts in text format (which ought to be added to VCS directly) and the
> license texts in Texinfo format (for which gnulib modules are
> appropriate).
Well I didn't include the GFDL in plai
Hi,
Asher Gordon wrote:
> Since Savannah requires licenses to be under version control (see
> here¹), I don't think it makes sense for Gnulib to provide modules for
> them. My reasoning is that if developers are going to use a Gnulib
> module, they won't keep the files it provides under version co
Hello all,
Since Savannah requires licenses to be under version control (see
here¹), I don't think it makes sense for Gnulib to provide modules for
them. My reasoning is that if developers are going to use a Gnulib
module, they won't keep the files it provides under version control (in
fact, gnuli
