On 2025-02-09 12:59, W. Kosior wrote:
A quick glance at the archives of one of RCS mailing lists shows that
at least Paul is still active [1].
[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-rcs/
Yes, I've been committing fixes, most recently a couple of months ago. See:
https://git.savannah.gnu.o
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> But since *.m4 files are often copied from one module to another,
Isn't this much like saying source code is often copied from one *.c
file to another? The FSF can do this, even if the code movement
crosses the LGPL/GPL boundary, since the FSF has the c
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I don't want it to give it away in public domain; instead I've added
> the GPL copyright notice to it now. Since the module description says
> LGPL, it effectively means the file is under LGPL.
Thanks. That sounds quite reasonable to me. (Like I said,
Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I don't know how does copyright law apply to auto-generated programs. Maybe
> debian-legal can offer advice on this.
The answer is "it depends", so let me give a few more details about
the file in question, so that debian-legal knows what we're talking
y adding a proper copyright notice. Also, I see that
gnulib has departed from the glibc code in some cases where it doesn't
need to (and this arguably could introduce a bug). So I installed
the following patch to fix both problems.
2004-10-06 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To fix diacrit.h and diacrit.c I installed the obvious patch:
2004-10-06 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* diacrit.c, diacrit.h: Add GPL notice.
Index: diacrit.c
===
RCS file: /cvsroot/gnulib/gnulib/lib/diacr
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Some m4 files are shared between GPLed and LGPLed packages,
Yes, and for these files the more-permissive license makes sense.
> and it is frequent to copy m4 macros from one file to another (much
> more frequent than copying source code between .c files
Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> For the m4 files, I propose to add the standard notice to them:
>
> dnl Copyright (C) YEARS Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> dnl This file is free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU
> dnl General Public License. As a special exception to th
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