Re: Copyright-paperwork-exempt

[Bernhard Voelker]

On 5/31/23 13:57, Bruno Haible wrote:
> I see this "Copyright-paperwork-exempt" annotation for the first time.
> I like it, since
>
>    * The ChangeLog is meant to record this information [1], but when
>      ChangeLogs are generated from git history, this information must
>      obviously be stored in git.
>
>    * Several other GNU packages use it already: glibc [2], autoconf [3],
>      libtool [4], emacs [5].

also coreutils, findutils, grep, sed.

>    * Its wording is not as confusing as the "tiny change" wording used in
>      ChangeLogs.

Indeed, "tiny" sounds like making the value of the contribution small
(which is wrong because each voluntary contribution is a good thing),
and it misses the point that one wants to annotate wrt/ copyright rules.

> But I think it would be good to write
>    Copyright-paperwork-exempt: yes
> (like everyone else does), not
>    Copyright-paperwork-exempt: true
>
> If everyone's OK with that, I would note it in the HACKING file, like
> it was done in libtool [4].

+1 from me.

Have a nice day,
Berny