From: Alexey Tourbin <at@altlinux.ru>
To: ALT Linux Team development discussions <devel@lists.altlinux.org>
Subject: Re: [devel] Big ChangeLog policy
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:39:54 +0300
Message-ID: <20091113193954.GL10659@altlinux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091113180440.GA22252@dad.imath.kiev.ua>
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On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 08:04:40PM +0200, Igor Vlasenko wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 09:01:25PM +0300, Alexey Tourbin wrote:
> > > Не будет ли это нарушением авторского права?
> >
> > I believe that "Big Changelogs" are written in order to conform
> > to GPLv2 2a:
> >
> > You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices
> > stating that you changed the files and the date of any change.
> >
> > Thus, it is formally required to include changelog into source
> > distribution. It is then arguably not required to include changelogs
> > into binary packages.
>
> Ok. It is safe to assume that robot should never kill Changelog,
> the choice is left for humans.
Along with traditional ChangeLog file, which is of little use to the end
user, many projects maintain a user-friendly (and developer-friendly)
file called NEWS. The rule is (I hereby propose) that NEWS be packaged.
And changelogs usually should not be packaged.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-13 19:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-13 17:29 Igor Vlasenko
2009-11-13 17:32 ` Aleksey Novodvorsky
2009-11-13 17:36 ` Igor Vlasenko
2009-11-13 17:41 ` Aleksey Novodvorsky
2009-11-13 17:56 ` Igor Vlasenko
2009-11-13 18:06 ` Igor Vlasenko
2009-11-14 10:18 ` [devel] Big ChangeLog policy [gzip|bzip2] Michael Shigorin
2009-11-13 17:46 ` [devel] Big ChangeLog policy Valery V. Inozemtsev
2009-11-13 18:01 ` Alexey Tourbin
2009-11-13 18:04 ` Igor Vlasenko
2009-11-13 19:39 ` Alexey Tourbin [this message]
2009-11-13 20:19 ` Igor Vlasenko
2009-11-13 20:27 ` Led
2009-11-14 5:35 ` Alexey Tourbin
2009-11-14 7:49 ` Andrey Rahmatullin
2009-11-14 11:59 ` Dmitry V. Levin
2009-11-14 14:30 ` Andrey Rahmatullin
2009-11-14 17:09 ` Led
2009-11-14 10:11 ` Michael Shigorin
2009-11-13 17:33 ` Afanasov Dmitry
2009-11-13 17:37 ` Igor Vlasenko
2009-11-13 17:38 ` Andrey Rahmatullin
2009-11-13 17:41 ` Igor Vlasenko
2009-11-13 17:47 ` Igor Vlasenko
2009-11-13 21:21 ` Anton Farygin
2009-11-14 7:36 ` Motsyo Gennadi aka Drool
2009-11-14 10:21 ` Michael Shigorin
2009-11-14 11:28 ` Igor Vlasenko
2009-11-17 14:32 ` Igor Vlasenko
2009-11-16 7:59 ` Timur Batyrshin
2009-11-16 8:11 ` Led
2009-11-16 8:27 ` Afanasov Dmitry
2009-11-16 8:30 ` Led
2009-11-17 14:33 ` Igor Vlasenko
2009-11-17 14:35 ` Igor Vlasenko
2009-11-21 16:12 ` Igor Vlasenko
2009-11-13 17:46 ` Alexey Tourbin
2009-11-14 8:31 ` Sergey Y. Afonin
2009-11-14 10:10 ` Michael Shigorin
2009-11-14 10:13 ` Andrey Rahmatullin
2009-11-14 11:16 ` Igor Vlasenko
2009-11-14 11:18 ` Andrey Rahmatullin
2009-11-14 11:30 ` Igor Vlasenko
2009-11-14 12:18 ` Michael Shigorin
2009-11-14 11:51 ` Anton Farygin
2009-11-18 20:03 ` Igor Vlasenko
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