Karl Berry wrote: > A while ago, Karl encouraged GNU maintainers to just license files like > > Well, more precisely, I attempted to clarify rms' recommendation which > has been the intention since the early days of GNU. I don't make policy > decisions like this myself :). > > However, I don't see any particular problem with using the > no-invariant-GFDL, or with putting the copyright at the end of NEWS, if > that's a maintainer's preference. > > However however, I also see no harm in looking at the first 20 lines > instead of the first 10 lines to match the version.
Looking at the first 20 lines was not an option for me when I wrote that, because it would be more likely to hit a false-positive match. These days it's less of a problem -- assuming you use the default regexp, since it is so tight -- but early regexps matched only the version string, with no anchor or date. Since the regexp is customizable via cfg.mk, extending the range would carry a small risk for those who customize it with a weaker regexp.
