Follow-up Comment #27, sr #110199 (project administration): Svante: perhaps there's a misunderstanding due to the common contribution process.
You wrote: "I have now added Copyright and License information to all files where it is needed." The thing is: it's needed everywhere. You also wrote: "If a patch for example does not change the copyright and license information does not have to change at all. Or do you mean the files I created?" Even if a patch does not change the copyright/licence of the file it is supposed to be applied on, there *is* copyright and licence information to be given on the *patch* itself. Usually when contributing to a project, people don't bother expliciting under which licence the patch is provided under, and the assumption is that it's under the licence of the file being patched. But here you can't go that way, since the patch could remain for some time in this proposed repo, and thus effectively living its own live, independently from what happens to the file that it's supposed to patch. So I guess there is a misunderstanding on *what* has to be maintained rather than a question of commitment. Put another way: yes, add a licence notice on each patch file (basically the licence of the file being patched, as that licence was at the time when the patch was created, since it is at that time that the creator of the patch read and agreed the licence under which that file was). And add a copyright notice on each patch file as well, to remember who created the patch and thus holds copyright on the patch (which will be needed anyway when trying to merge the patch upstream). Note: yes, for instance Debian does not usually keep a licence note in the patch queues that it maintains, but the GNU standards are higher than this. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.nongnu.org/support/?110199> _______________________________________________ Message posté via Savannah https://savannah.nongnu.org/