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bug#64158: --version copyright year stale, formatting
From: |
Bob Friesenhahn |
Subject: |
bug#64158: --version copyright year stale, formatting |
Date: |
Mon, 19 Jun 2023 10:05:59 -0500 (CDT) |
User-agent: |
Alpine 2.20 (GSO 67 2015-01-07) |
On Sun, 18 Jun 2023, Karl Berry wrote:
Also, the ordering of the elements is wrong, and the license info is
missing (and there are spurious blank lines). According to the coding
standards, I believe it should be:
--
libtool (GNU libtool) 2.4.7
Copyright (C) 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv2+/Autoconf: GNU GPL version 2 or later
<https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>, <https://gnu.org/licenses/exceptions.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Parts of "libtool" are ofered under a special exception. For example,
in ltdl.c I see
"
As a special exception to the GNU Lesser General Public License,
if you distribute this file as part of a program or library that
is built using GNU Libtool, you may include this file under the
same distribution terms that you use for the rest of that program.
"
In fact in libtool-2.4.6 I see 51 files which mention "special
exception".
This may be why the normal blanket statement does not appear in the
--version text.
Perhaps mention other post-Gord major authors, too.
That would be great since post-Gord authors produced most of the
current product.
Bob
--
Bob Friesenhahn
bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
Public Key, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/public-key.txt