Subject: Re: bug#15787: Standardize license notice?

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 09:30:15 +0200

> Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 10:30:33 +0800
> From: Xue Fuqiao <[email-masked]>
> 
> In some files, the license notice starts as:
> 
>    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or
>    [...]
> 
> but in some other files, the license notice starts as:
> 
>     GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
>     [...]

The files that use the former language are files we get from other
projects and distributions, such as gmulib.  Making these changes in
them would just mean more merge conflicts for no good reason.

So please don't do this.