Re: annoying glib licencing stuff

[Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

Hi Mathieu,
> hi,
>
> I received a patch from a user of the gobject documentation I wrote a
> while so I spent a while integrating his typo fixes in the glib cvs HEAD
> repository.
>
> The attached patch (typos.patch) which I have not yet committed contains
> his fixes and a few other typo fixes I had lying around. Am I allowed,
> to check in myself without prior approval patches which touch only the
> docs/reference/gobject/tut_*.xml files ?
I guess the typo.patch needs no discussion and should be commited right away.
> I must say that I am a bit annoyed by two things about the current state
> of cvs HEAD:
>
>   - the list of contributors has disappeared from the documentation.
> While I don't mind moving it to some place less visible than it was
> before, I would like to keep it in the xml.
>
>   - my copyright as well as my name have disappeared from the source xml
> and are not visible anywhere in the source tree despite what the license
> it was released under requires (see docs/reference/COPYING).
>
Good point! IMHO all gtk-docs should have an appendix with sections such as 
licence, contributors, etc.
> I would be happy if someone could approve the other patch attached
> (license.patch):
>   - re-add the list of contributors in a separate chapter at the end of
> the gobject-doc.sgml file.
>   - add a copyright statement at the top of gobject-doc.sgml including
> me and the other major contributors. I have no idea who the "other major
> contributors" are for the parts of the document I did not write and the
> parts which are automatically extracted from the source code so I did
> put only my name there. (adding more is a matter of adding a <copyright>
> tag with its <year> and <holder> tags)
>
> regards,
> Mathieu
Ciao
  Stefan