Re: Modules with no stable release for 2.24.0

[Olav Vitters <olav bkor dhs org>]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 01:37:00PM +0200, Vincent Untz wrote:
> Le mardi 23 septembre 2008, à 13:26 +0200, Christian Persch a écrit :
> > Hi;
> > 
> > > Here's a quick list of modules that seem to still only have an unstable
> > > release. If you want someone to release a tarball for you, please reply.
> > > 
> > > gconf-editor           2.23.91
> > 
> > There's a problem with gconf-editor, bug #551943. In short, it has no
> > COPYING file in SVN (never had one, not even in the initial import to
> > CVS all those years ago !), and one important C file has no copyright
> > header (never had one), so I don't think I can just go and add one. Any
> > advice how to proceed here?
> 
> Ah, didn't know. I went ahead and made a release since it was only
> translation updates.
> 
> So, no COPYING shouldn't be that much of an issue: I guess the tarballs
> all contain the GPL since the autotools add it. It's my understanding it
> was always released as GPL (even by its initial authors), so we can just
> add it.
> 
> For the missing copyright header, it's harder. I guess it should be
> possible to look at who added it with svn logs.

I saw some note somewhere that it adds GPLv3 instead of v2.

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Regards,
Olav