From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xue Fuqiao Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Licensing of NEWS files? Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 07:00:22 +0800 Message-ID: References: <87si5cunrt.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <56202341.7060702@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1444950033 11625 80.91.229.3 (15 Oct 2015 23:00:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 23:00:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: David Kastrup , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 16 01:00:32 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZmrVg-0003VR-5j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2015 01:00:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50060 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZmrVf-0001B8-DG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 19:00:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39225) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZmrVZ-0001B2-QF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 19:00:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZmrVY-000104-R7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 19:00:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-io0-x22f.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4001:c06::22f]:33379) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZmrVX-0000zb-8r; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 19:00:23 -0400 Original-Received: by iodv82 with SMTP id v82so106410171iod.0; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 16:00:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=k+Mn935B6SVAUZnzR2WCph6Grv5iaSJ/Vd6ulhjjhEo=; b=Wb95dWExp78vHUGI+973wSba3/i6nQTF4lEBon9Zxio7/usQax13kC2mswrQAG+rlV IFc8lAKoRL2ad5bYmHkDCtvjSqjxQ85bCxQUlVCK8O7TS96efy4iwrJDZ/e6m1P0YNgT M4sZTIen+z2yZDVZZ085tdnmtuqaeikw/scPy7KOld1M55+DPFXKifGFfYgSpk/r2u3a 8XVezvttl6X5Uvf4AWxXL4jMqma2bJCjA4Km+BDP4WezyRPvXWaXp8MjXGYHyzH0j5qk pwe19S1cSzRww8+HikoDHyXNQJYhoEfo5qkiTveea3Hi7fVDnxz6GVtY5lBCBUp+carU wJ/g== X-Received: by 10.107.41.138 with SMTP id p132mr10177730iop.188.1444950022545; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 16:00:22 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.79.94.2 with HTTP; Thu, 15 Oct 2015 16:00:22 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <56202341.7060702@cs.ucla.edu> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4001:c06::22f X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:191701 Archived-At: On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 6:05 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: >> Granted, that did not annoy me as much for licensing reasons as >> it did for making it unable to get a rough estimate when the various >> major versions of Emacs had been released. > > Yes, I've also run afoul of that. I attempted to help out by installing the > attached patch. Some of this is from my vague recollections, some from > random places on the Internet, and quite possibly I've made transcription > errors; corrections and improvements are welcome. I think etc/RELEASES or etc/RELEASE-HISTORY are better names than etc/HISTORY if the content of the file only contains release version numbers/dates. IMO a file named HISTORY should be something like these: * https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.69/html_node/History.html#History * https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/History.html#History