Re: test suite failure caused by check-copyright script

[Bruno Haible]

Maxim Cournoyer wrote:
> I'm discovering this project and attempted to run 'make check'.  It
> seems to be finding problems, failing with:
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> [...]
> GPL            ??             lib/xstrtoull.c
> GPL            ??             lib/xstrtoumax.c
> GPL            ??             lib/gl_xsublist.c
> LGPLv2+        GPLv2+         lib/glthread/yield.h
> make: *** [Makefile:142: sc_check_copyright] Error 1

It seems we made a decision in November 2011, regarding license
statements in source code files, [1], but did not follow through
with the implementation of this decision: 'check-copyright' reports
more than 2300 failures.

Does everyone still agree
  - to put into the source files a license header that is consistent
    with the module description, and
  - to remove the statement from the documentation
    "The source files always say "GPL", but the real license
     specification is in the module description file." ?

Bruno

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2011-11/msg00191.html