Re: missing licenses in gnulib

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) writes:

>     About the modules/ files. I wrote most of them. What kind of copyright
>     would you find useful, given that it's only meta-information?
>
> I suggest, based on the advice in maintain.texi:
>
>  Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>  Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
>  are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
>  notice and this notice are preserved.
>
> Perhaps it is ok to just put this in a modules/README file and say all
> the modules/* files are covered by it.

IMHO, I'd rather fix gnulib-tool to ignore lines starting with # (if
gnulib-tool doesn't do this already).  Then we can support comments in
the module meta-info files, including license of the file itself.

Thanks.