Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: savannah.gnu.org: submission of tiger

[Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña]

On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 01:52:40PM +0100, Jaime E . Villate wrote:
> Hi Javi,
> (I know Javier personally and I can give very good references on him as a
> very active Debian developper).

        Well, thanks Jaime :)
> 
> While you are making changes to your tiger package, there are two other things
> that you should change:
> 
>   1- The copy of the GPL that you have in COPYING is out of date (the address
(...)

        Ok. 

> 
>   2- Since this is a multi-author package, you should create an AUTHORS file
(...)
        Will do.

>   explaining what scripts/programs have been written by who. The scripts in
>   util/ have an indication of their authors, but the programs don't; but even
>   if they did, it is useful to have a summary in an AUTHORS file.
> 
        IIRC the programs under scripts/ do. But will add them anyway.


> The inclussion of the 3-paragraph copying permission statement at the
> beginning of each source file sounds like a lot of work, but since the
> statement is the same for all programs, you can automate that task (for each
> file in *.c; do ... for instance)

        I do have to check all the files under systems/ (OS specific stuff
there).

        Regards

        Javi

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