Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of Bloglines Notifier - savannah.nongnu.org

[Alaska Subedi]

Brett Hall wrote:
> The help files are hand-editted.  The main help file contains a link to 
> the legal.xml file that states that the documentation is released under 
> the GFDL and contains a  copy of the license.  This is all displayed  on 
> the "about this article" page when viewed under the gnome help system or 
> when the documentation is converted to HTML or other formats.  I suppose 
> I could add a comment to the top of the main help file stating the 
> license that it is under and pointing people at the legal.xml file for a 
> copy of the license.  Is this what you're looking for?
>
> I'll go ahead and add GPL comments to the other xml files that are 
> distributed and look into the pot file issue as well.

Yes, that should address the issue of xml files. Your program will
display the licenses and copyright when it is run but here we are
concerned about the source files.

Please reply to me with the URL of the updated source code and I
will approve your project for inclusion in Savannah.

Regards,

Alaska Subedi

> -brett
>
> Alaska Subedi wrote:
>
> > Brett Hall wrote:
> >
> > > Hi-
> > >
> > > Is it a new requirement that all of these files have the GPL 
> > > notices?  None of the other projects I've looked at, some of which 
> > > are hosted on Savannah, have these notices in the xml and pot files.  
> > > Plus it's going to be hard to maintain a notice in the pot file since 
> > > it gets generated by the autogen script and won't be stored in the 
> > > cvs repository.  I can add the notices, but I wanted to make sure it 
> > > was absolutely necessary.  Thanks for any info.
> > >
> > > -brett
> >
> > We only need the notices in the source files, files generated by scripts
> > do not need notices. However, the xml files in ../help/C/ look like they
> > have been created manually.
> >
> > The .pot files contains:
> > # SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE.
> > # Copyright (C) YEAR THE PACKAGE'S COPYRIGHT HOLDER
> > ...
> >
> > So, it looks like it is meant to be edited by hand, not
> > auto-regenerated, or that autogen be configured some
> > more so that it completes this header.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Alaska Subedi