Re: [PATCH] vcs-to-changelog: Add manual documentation

[Siddhesh Poyarekar]

On 19/01/20 12:03 am, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Hi Siddhesh,
> 
>>>>    * doc/vcs-to-changelog.texi: New file.
>>>>    * doc/gnulib.texi (Build Infrastructure Modules): Add
>>>>    vcs-to-changelog section.
>>>
>>> Thanks. Applied, with a change to the license notice:
>>>
>>>> +@c Texts.  A copy of the license is included in the ``GNU Free
>>>> +@c Documentation License'' file as part of this distribution.
>>>
>>> "as part of this distribution" is not really applicable, since the gnulib
>>> manual is never included in a tarball. I copied the license notice from
>>> gnulib.texi instead (also GFDL 1.3).
>>
>> Thanks, I think I copied from some other source file in gnulib.
> 
> Ah, I see.
> 
> John Darrington pointed out to me two months ago that it is quite frequent 
> that
> individual files get copied out of the original package and out of the 
> original
> git repository. The license notices should cater about this; they should 
> neither
> refer to a "file as part of this distribution" nor to "the section entitled 
> ..."
> if that section is not in the same file. The best way to handle this is a URL.
> Nowadays you can assume that people normally have an internet connection.
> 

Agreed, that makes sense.

Thanks,
Siddhesh