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Re: Strictness
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Bob Friesenhahn |
Subject: |
Re: Strictness |
Date: |
Sat, 11 Aug 2007 12:00:41 -0500 (CDT) |
On Sat, 11 Aug 2007, [UTF-8] Carl Fürstenberg wrote:
In plenty of projects I have encountered, the "gnu" strictness is
toostrict, but also, the "foreign" strictness is too little
sometimes.
Thus I suggest a new strictness, somewhere in between gnu and
foreign,lets call it "relaxed", it's simlar to 'gnu', but only
following filesare required:'INSTALL', 'AUTHORS' and 'README', plus
one of 'COPYING.LIB','COPYING.LESSER', 'COPYING', or 'LICENSE'.
The reason for this is:ChangeLog: often mostly a duplicate of
svn/cvs logs, seldom really usedNEWS: Often projects uses an other
mean of media for news.LICENSE: some projects calls the license as
LICENSE instead of COPYING
Only projects overcome with sloth do not maintain a ChangeLog.
Version control systems come and go and are often not accessible to
everyone while the tarball may continue to exist after the authors of
the program have deceased. It does not seem wise to encourage sloth
in open source software.
I don't see that yet another adjustment knob is justified given the
small benefit to humanity. If this change is made, then it should be
called "indolent" rather than "relaxed".
Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
- Strictness, Carl Fürstenberg, 2007/08/11
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- Re: Strictness, Noah Slater, 2007/08/11
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- Re: Strictness, Carl Fürstenberg, 2007/08/11
- Re: Strictness, Noah Slater, 2007/08/11
- Re: Strictness, Carl Fürstenberg, 2007/08/11
- Re: Strictness, Noah Slater, 2007/08/11
- Re: Strictness, Carl Fürstenberg, 2007/08/11
- Re: Strictness, Noah Slater, 2007/08/11
- Re: Strictness, Carl Fürstenberg, 2007/08/11
- Re: Strictness, Carl Fürstenberg, 2007/08/11
- Re: Strictness, Robert Collins, 2007/08/12