Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Re: [task #10565] Submission of Insidious Big Brother Database

[Roland Winkler]

On Wed Aug 25 2010 Karl Berry wrote:
> Hi Roland,
> 
>     - I could put now a Makefile in the repository. Yet later on this
>       will be replaced by the files required by autoconf. I know that
>       old CVS can give you a hard time if you try to modify the
>       structure of the repository...
> 
> Removing a single file is no real problem.  In my experience,
>   cvs rm -f Makefile && cvs commit
> will suffice when you are ready to switch to autoconf.

Thanks, I'll give this a try. (All in all, having a makefile makes
it easier to get started with a package, even if it's not perfectly
smooth right now.)

> Legally, your entire work is being "licensed as a whole" under GPLv3, so
> it suffices to put the GPLv3 text into the repository.  If you want to
> include the GPLv2 text too as well, that is fine too.  (I recommend the
> file names COPYING and COPYINGv2 for this.)

Thanks. I decided to switch to GPLv3 (better now than later with yet
more files to worry about).

Roland