Re: [gnu.org #1534539] Re: Licensing issues for gendocs_template_min

2020-05-23 Thread Asher Gordon
Bruno Haible writes: > Thanks. Pushed. Great, thanks! Asher -- : The following (relative to AutoSplit 1.03) attempts to please everyone : and perhaps pleases no one: I think that's way cool. -- Larry Wall in <199709292015.naa09...@wall.org> GPG fingerprint: 38F3 975C D173 40

Re: [gnu.org #1534539] Re: Licensing issues for gendocs_template_min

2020-05-22 Thread Bruno Haible
> Whoops, I meant to amend the commit, not create a new one. Here's the > full patch: Thanks. Pushed. Bruno

Re: [gnu.org #1534539] Re: Licensing issues for gendocs_template_min

2020-05-22 Thread Asher Gordon
Asher Gordon writes: > Ok, I've updated my patch; see below. Whoops, I meant to amend the commit, not create a new one. Here's the full patch: From d6859cd978ed2ff787b062b5094656b3c3608c91 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Asher Gordon Date: Fri, 22 May 2020 13:39:01 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] gendocs

Re: [gnu.org #1534539] Re: Licensing issues for gendocs_template_min

2020-05-22 Thread Asher Gordon
Karl Berry writes: > Thanks for all your work on this. Happy to help! :-) > Also, I used 2020 for the copyright year. Should that instead be > something like 2007-2020? > > Yes. The lone year "2020" stuff is only for the online web pages. Ah, I see. So should these copyright years be u

Re: [gnu.org #1534539] Re: Licensing issues for gendocs_template_min

2020-05-22 Thread Karl Berry
Thanks for all your work on this. Also, I used 2020 for the copyright year. Should that instead be something like 2007-2020? Yes. The lone year "2020" stuff is only for the online web pages. Also, I think the Parent-Version: value should be incremented in gendocs_template. I'm not sure i

[gnu.org #1534539] Re: Licensing issues for gendocs_template_min

2020-05-22 Thread Asher Gordon
Hi Karl, Karl Berry writes: > Asher and all - the CC-BY-ND (or, previously, "verbatim copying is > allowed") is intended to refer to the web page as posted publicly > (that's why it's visible text), not the gendocs_* template files > themselves. Ah, I see. I guess I didn't look very carefully a

[gnu.org #1534539] Re: Licensing issues for gendocs_template_min

2020-05-21 Thread Karl Berry
Asher and all - the CC-BY-ND (or, previously, "verbatim copying is allowed") is intended to refer to the web page as posted publicly (that's why it's visible text), not the gendocs_* template files themselves. I suppose there should be commented-out text stating the license of the template text, w

[gnu.org #1534539] Re: Licensing issues for gendocs_template_min

2020-05-20 Thread Asher Gordon
Whoops, I forgot to include the string "[gnu.org #1531751]" in the Subject of my previous message, so it created new issue (to which this is a reply). I have never written to licens...@fsf.org before, so I didn't realize how it works. I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. If you

Re: Licensing issues for gendocs_template_min

2020-05-20 Thread Asher Gordon
Asher Gordon writes: > However, gendocs_template_min is licensed under the Creative Commons > Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License. After noticing that the gendocs_template for GNU Tar is licensed under the GNU All-Permissive license, I figured that perhaps gendocs_template in Gnulib w

Licensing issues for gendocs_template_min

2020-05-16 Thread Asher Gordon
Hello, I would like to use the gendocs.sh script to generate documentation for my package.ยน However, since my package is not part of the GNU project, there are naturally some changes I would like to make to the gendocs template (specifically, gendocs_template_min). Here are the specific changes I