>From 28b9c6e2401a50f65339edd9001e04e6b7f2a1fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Phil Sainty Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 04:33:34 +1200 Subject: [PATCH] * README: document Copyright requirements --- README | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/README b/README index 57d9ca9..f83677f 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -127,6 +127,12 @@ and the web-pages from this source code: put a `.elpaignore' file in the root of your package directory, where you can list patterns of files to ignore (this file is passed to tar's -X). +The Copyright notice should specify "Free Software Foundation, Inc." as +the copyright holder. Ensure that all the code has the proper copyright: +if it is not your own code, make sure the author has signed the relevant +copyright papers (for non-trivial contributions), and indicate the author +correctly in the commit (and the ChangeLog if applicable). + ** External branches The above instructions are enough to add regular packages, those that -- 2.8.3