unintentional license change for texi docs?
nick clifton
nickc@redhat.com
Wed Dec 7 16:06:00 GMT 2011
Hi Matthias
> A Debian developer pointer out in http://bugs.debian.org/650504, that the
> license for some of the bfd documentation was changed back in 2007 as part of a
> cleanup, but adding the front and back cover texts.
>
> Log message:
> Use @copying around copyright notices
>
> http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils-cvs/2007-05/msg00122.html
>
> http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/bfd/doc/bfd.texinfo.diff?cvsroot=src&r1=1.14&r2=1.15
> http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/bfd/doc/bfdint.texi.diff?cvsroot=src&r1=1.20&r2=1.21
>
> The changelog doesn't mention this. If this was unintentional, could this be
> reverted (both on the branch and the trunk)? It would help Debian to distribute
> the documentation in the main section of the archive.
Sorry - the change was intentional. It is the changelog entry that is
wrong. It should have also said that front and back cover texts were
being added as well.
Cheers
Nick
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