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Re: Remove license modules
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: Remove license modules |
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Sat, 16 May 2020 01:17:40 +0200 |
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Hi,
Asher Gordon wrote:
> Since Savannah requires licenses to be under version control (see
> here¹), I don't think it makes sense for Gnulib to provide modules for
> them. My reasoning is that if developers are going to use a Gnulib
> module, they won't keep the files it provides under version control (in
> fact, gnulib-tool itself adds these files to .gitignore). There's no
> reason to remove the license *files*, since it could be useful for
> developers to copy them directly.
> ...
> Footnotes:
> ¹ https://savannah.nongnu.org/task/?func=detailitem&item_id=15583
At the moment you sent the mail, the discussion in that ticket was still
ongoing.
Now it has completed, and it turned out you were confusing the license
texts in text format (which ought to be added to VCS directly) and the
license texts in Texinfo format (for which gnulib modules are appropriate).
Bruno