In plenty of projects I have encountered, the "gnu" strictness is too strict, but also, the "foreign" strictness is too little sometimes.
Thus I suggest a new strictness, somewhere in between gnu and foreign, lets call it "relaxed", it's simlar to 'gnu', but only following files are required: 'INSTALL', 'AUTHORS' and 'README', plus one of 'COPYING.LIB', 'COPYING.LESSER', 'COPYING', or 'LICENSE'. The reason for this is: ChangeLog: often mostly a duplicate of svn/cvs logs, seldom really used NEWS: Often projects uses an other mean of media for news. LICENSE: some projects calls the license as LICENSE instead of COPYING -- /Carl Fürstenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
