Le dimanche 03 octobre 2010 à 10:48 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi a écrit : > if you're referring to the 2.a clause in the GPLv2, i.e.: [snip] > then the section is referring to the licensee, i.e. people > redistributing the program under the terms of the license, not the > original authors of the program itself; in this case, the Debian > developer applying distribution patches and thus modifying the copy of > the program. I think this interpretation is valid only for programs for which one single entity owns all the copyrights. Since GNOME doesn’t request copyright assignment, it would still be needed. > *if*, on the other hand, you want a ChangeLog because it makes your life > as a packager easier (for some unknown reason) then you should probably > ask for a Gnome Goal to add the autogeneration of the ChangeLog from the > Git commit log to every GNOME project. the patch is trivial and I'm > pretty sure it could also teach people a thing or two about auto-tools. For the packager’s needs, the NEWS file is enough. For everything else, there’s the repository. I’m more worried about legal issues. Cheers, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “If you behave this way because you are blackmailed by someone, `- […] I will see what I can do for you.” -- Jörg Schilling
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