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.
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
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.
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