On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 13:33 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le dimanche 03 octobre 2010 à 10:48 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi a écrit :
> > if you're referring to the 2.a clause in the GPLv2, i.e.:
> [snip]
> > then the section is referring to the licensee, i.e. people
> > redistributing the program un
Emmanuele Bassi a écrit:
> *if*, on the other hand, you want a ChangeLog because it makes your life
> as a packager easier (for some unknown reason) then you should probably
> ask for a Gnome Goal to add the autogeneration of the ChangeLog from the
> Git commit log to every GNOME project. the pat
Le dimanche 03 octobre 2010 à 10:48 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi a écrit :
> if you're referring to the 2.a clause in the GPLv2, i.e.:
[snip]
> then the section is referring to the licensee, i.e. people
> redistributing the program under the terms of the license, not the
> original authors of the progr
On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 12:58 +0200, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:
> Le dimanche 03 octobre 2010 à 10:48 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi a écrit :
> > then the section is referring to the licensee, i.e. people
> > redistributing the program under the terms of the license, not the
> > original authors of the prog
Hi!
> Anyway, as you said, I think it would be good to add autotools stuff for
> this, and have all modules ship with their git changelog, since it can
> be useful to distributors and users.
Why is it useful? It's duplication of information (in a strange format)
that is available through git and
Le dimanche 03 octobre 2010 à 10:48 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi a écrit :
> then the section is referring to the licensee, i.e. people
> redistributing the program under the terms of the license, not the
> original authors of the program itself; in this case, the Debian
> developer applying distribution
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 2:48 AM, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> *if*, on the other hand, you want a ChangeLog because it makes your life
> as a packager easier (for some unknown reason) then you should probably
> ask for a Gnome Goal to add the autogeneration of the ChangeLog from the
> Git commit log to
On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 11:23 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> There should be no need to remind you that the GPL mandates a changelog
> or something similar to be present in all source distributions.
it's the NEWS file.
if you're referring to the 2.a clause in the GPLv2, i.e.:
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Hi,
I have noticed there are still modules that don’t ship a changelog in
their tarballs, and their number has been growing ever since the
migration to git.
There should be no need to remind you that the GPL mandates a changelog
or something similar to be present in all source distributions.
It
