GNU bug report logs - #15787
Standardize license notice?

Previous Next

Package: emacs;

Reported by: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 02:31:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: wontfix

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

Full log

View this message in rfc822 format

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 15787 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15787: Standardize license notice?
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2013 23:07:48 -0400

Xue Fuqiao 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
>     [...]
>
> Maybe we should standardize them?

If it makes you happy. Take care to avoid things that are _not_ part of
Emacs, such as files from gnulib, oldxmenu files, etc.

(Did you really need to make a bug report for this?)
This bug report was last modified 11 years and 171 days ago.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.