Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org> writes: > > I've made a new pretest for hello, > http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hello/hello-2.3.91.tar.gz. > > The Hello code is unchanged; this is just to get the new version of the > FDL, and updated gnulib and other infrastructure. > > Please test if you have the inclination.
With the recent FDL-1.3 release, I noticed that some GNU packages ship COPYING.DOC as a text copy of the FDL (for example, sed[1]), while others only ship fdl.texi (for example, Autoconf). Automake supports automatic distribution of COPYING.DOC if it is present, but 'automake --install' does not add it if not present (contrast with COPYING, which it does add). Neither the Automake manual nor the GNU Coding Standards (standards.texi) mention whether COPYING.DOC is recommended practice. [1] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=sed.git;a=commitdiff;h=b62309d Should we update the GNU Coding Standards to require that any package that ships documentation under a separate license than COPYING should also provide a COPYING.DOC file? And if so, should the hello package set a good example? Likewise, should Automake make this easier? -- Eric Blake
