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Standardize license notice?

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From: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 15787 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15787: Standardize license notice?
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 15:48:31 +0800

On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>> 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.

I don't think so.  What about regex.{h, c}?  termcap.c?  tparam.c?  Many
tests in test/automated?  gnus-icalendar.el?  and so on...

-- 
Best regards, Xue Fuqiao.
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

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