Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Licensing issues

[Sylvain Beucler]

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 04:45:08PM -0600, Karl Berry wrote:
>     While this is right, many people do not add notices to makefiles
>     (especially Makefile.am's), changelogs and headers.  I don't think we
>     should be picky about these cases, 
> 
> Personally, I completely agree with you.  But my understanding is that
> rms insists we be this picky, for the sake of "educating" submitters
> about these issues -- every source (non-derived) file should be covered.
> (And this is a major reason why the backlog is what it is.)
> 
> Sylvain, is that right?

Usually I request notices whenever the Makefile[.*] is non-trivial.
If that's the only problem, I accept the project and tell the
submitter to fix it before uploading the code at Savannah.

To sum-up: nothing different about those files :)

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Sylvain