[devel] Big ChangeLog policy

[Igor Vlasenko]

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.

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Dr. Igor Vlasenko
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Institute of Math
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