Peter Simons wrote: > the NEWS file of the GNU Autoconf Archive begins with a copyright header. As a > result, the check-news target fails, because the output of "head ./NEWS" > doesn't contain the release line that target is looking for. > > I have worked around the problem by patching maint.mk as follows: > > sed -i -e 's,head $(srcdir)/NEWS,head -n 20 $(srcdir)/NEWS,' maint.mk > > Maybe it's worthwhile to change that in the distribution, too?
You may want to put the copyright at the end of NEWS. Human readers prefer it that way, too ;-) Here's what I use: ======================================================================== Copyright (C) 2001-2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the ``GNU Free Documentation License'' file as part of this distribution.
