Developers of Sympa

[IKEDA Soji <address@concealed>]

Hi,

I had misconception.  Our configure.ac specifys "foreign" style and
AUTHORS file is not mandatory.  I think it would be better to be
"AUTHORS.md".

Regards,

-- Soji

On Tue, 16 May 2017 11:08:52 +0900
IKEDA Soji <address@concealed> wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> I'm sorry for my trolling on the chat.
> 
> 
> I want to propose updating copyright notice in each source file
> which is reccomended by GPL HOWTO:
>   https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html
> See any source file of Sympa for recent and earlier notices.
> 
> If no strong objection, this proposal may be put into practice on
> the next release, 6.2.17beta.
> 
> 
> #! proposal
> 
> (1) Add following line just after recent notice: <<'EOF'.
> Copyright 2017 The Sympa Community. See the AUTHORS file at the
> top-level directory of this distribution and at
> <https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa.git>.
> EOF
> 
>   # On this occation, verbose (redundant) "Copyright (c)" is avoided.
>   # And FYI, "(c)" is usually written in uppercase.
>   # # Though both of them are harmless. :b
> 
>   This manner is taken from an article by Software Freedom Law
>   Center, the latter of two systems: file-scope and centralized.
>   
> https://softwarefreedom.org/resources/2012/ManagingCopyrightInformation.html
> 
> (2) Content of AUTHORS described in the notice above will be
>   initially taken from credits on a DokuWiki page:
>   https://www.sympa.org/users/authors#credits
> 
>   We have to allow the fact that content of this file will be
>   left incomplete for the time being.
> 
> __END__
> 
> Notes:
> 
> * The name "The Sympa Community" is titlecase.  For people to spell
>   it, it looks less astonishing than mixture of cases e.g.
>   "The Sympa community".
> 
> * At first, addition of notices will be done on 12 source files
>   changed after New Year's Day in 2017.  On other files it will
>   be added when each file will be modified.
> 
> * Adding years, GPL HOWTO prefers to listing individual years
>   (2017, 2018, 2019).  Range of years (2017-2019) will be avoided.
> 
> * Article by SFLC suggests file name as COPYRIGHT, but GNU Coding
>   Standard recommends to include the file named AUTHORS (autotools
>   expects existence of this file).  So a file named AUTHORS will
>   be included.  Content of existing AUTHORS file will be removed.
> 
> ^D
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- Soji
> 
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