Re: Exceptions for certain files in ELPA?

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 3/13/18 3:03 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > > This can be counted as "trivial" enough not to require copyright
> > > paperwork, indeed.
> > But copyright notices are per-file, right?
>
> BTW: As soon as we make a single change to that file, it will deserve
> a "Copyright by Free Software Foundation".  What's discussed here,
> rather is whether we should also keep the other copyright line.

Right, but the only change I can see myself applying to it is adding (or 
changing) the copyright line. :-)

> > I expect the build process to be confused.
>
> The only possible source of annoyance would be "make check_copyrights",
> but this comes with an escape hatch (the copyright_exceptions file), so
> there shouldn't be any problem.

So that's okay to do. Good to know, thanks.