On 19/01/20 12:03 am, Bruno Haible wrote: > Hi Siddhesh, > >>>> * doc/vcs-to-changelog.texi: New file. >>>> * doc/gnulib.texi (Build Infrastructure Modules): Add >>>> vcs-to-changelog section. >>> >>> Thanks. Applied, with a change to the license notice: >>> >>>> +@c Texts. A copy of the license is included in the ``GNU Free >>>> +@c Documentation License'' file as part of this distribution. >>> >>> "as part of this distribution" is not really applicable, since the gnulib >>> manual is never included in a tarball. I copied the license notice from >>> gnulib.texi instead (also GFDL 1.3). >> >> Thanks, I think I copied from some other source file in gnulib. > > Ah, I see. > > John Darrington pointed out to me two months ago that it is quite frequent > that > individual files get copied out of the original package and out of the > original > git repository. The license notices should cater about this; they should > neither > refer to a "file as part of this distribution" nor to "the section entitled > ..." > if that section is not in the same file. The best way to handle this is a URL. > Nowadays you can assume that people normally have an internet connection. >
Agreed, that makes sense. Thanks, Siddhesh
