Re: Patch for Copyright Notices in maintain.texi [WAS: Re: Approving Dezyne, savannah task 16067]

[Janneke Nieuwenhuizen]

Richard Stallman writes:

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> Who originated the main changes?  Basically, who is the person who
> recommends them, and on what basis?

That was me, on basis of the experience that I had to get Dezyne
accepted to Savannah, which took almost 6 months and then needed an
overruling to finish.  The changes intend to help smoothen that process
and document current standard practice of GNU packages, so that new
packages would not have to be unnecessarily strict and resolve to doing
silly things in order to be accepted.

As an example, having data files (to the eye of most everyone except the
evaluater "uninteresting files") of ~15 lines without individual
copyright header was a hard blocker, even though Dezyne came with a
README file, and later also a REUSE spec (https://reuse.software)
explaining their copyright and license situation.  And even though this
is standar practice amongst GNU packages.

Greetings,
Janneke

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