Re: check-news target fails if NEWS file starts with a copyright header

[Karl Berry]

    A while ago, Karl encouraged GNU maintainers to just license files like

Well, more precisely, I attempted to clarify rms' recommendation which
has been the intention since the early days of GNU.  I don't make policy
decisions like this myself :).

However, I don't see any particular problem with using the
no-invariant-GFDL, or with putting the copyright at the end of NEWS, if
that's a maintainer's preference.

However however, I also see no harm in looking at the first 20 lines
instead of the first 10 lines to match the version.

My $0.00002 :).

karl