Re: auto-inserting COPYING

2008-12-13 Thread Karl Berry
I think it would make Automake less convenient, which is why I chose against it, but that's of course only my opinion. I think the potential for confusion outweighs by far the trivial convenience, but that's of course only my opinion too. And yes, the only other sane semantics IMVHO

Re: auto-inserting COPYING

2008-12-11 Thread Peter Johansson
Hi Karl, Karl Berry wrote: I just learned that in some circumstances automake will insert a COPYING file if it's missing (albeit with a warning), e.g., at make dist? (I didn't look into the precise details.) This is a very old feature and according to NEWS it was actually deprecated in

Re: auto-inserting COPYING

2008-12-11 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Karl, Peter, * Peter Johansson wrote on Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 03:24:18AM CET: Karl Berry wrote: I just learned that in some circumstances automake will insert a COPYING file if it's missing (albeit with a warning), e.g., at make dist? (I didn't look into the precise details.) Never at