Re: copyright notice on gnulib/doc/regexprops-generic.texi?

[James Youngman]

On 8/15/06, Karl Berry <address@hidden> wrote:
>     we should be generating it automatically from findutils
>
> My recollection is that James does generate it from findutils, and
> checks in the new version to gnulib, or sends it to me, or something
> like that.  James will inform us, I'm sure.

I would email it, as I have no write access to the gnulib repository.

> I am inclined to finesse the license issue by using the all-permissive
> text, which is compatible with everything.  Admittedly the file is a bit
> long, but it's also boring and automatically generated, essentially a
> transliteration of the code.  So somehow that feels ok to me.

The file itself is simply derived from
1. the regex.h header file
2. the gnulib documentation

I think that an all-permissive licence would be fine.

James.