Re: gnulib copyright method

2011-11-13 Thread Bruno Haible
Karl Berry wrote: > As I recall, this situation came about to placate projects which were > using gnulib without using gnulib-tool, notably coreutils and others > that Paul E and Jim M were working on. In the years since then, all > those projects (to my knowledge) have started using gnulib-tool.

Re: gnulib copyright method

2011-11-13 Thread Simon Josefsson
k...@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) writes: > So how about normalizing gnulib to have the actual license in the source > files? +1 This has caused several misunderstandings and I've always hoped we could return to normal practices here. /Simon

Re: gnulib copyright method

2011-11-12 Thread Paul Eggert
On 11/12/11 16:46, Karl Berry wrote: > So how about normalizing gnulib to have the actual license in the source > files? I don't have any objection.

gnulib copyright method

2011-11-12 Thread Karl Berry
https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/Copyright.html which says The source files always say "GPL", but the real license specification is in the module description file. .. which is highly anomalous. I'm not aware of any other project anywhere which deliberately puts i