Re: [Groff] Trying to understand groff development and release model

[Halim Issa]

On Monday 22 December 2008 19:18:15 Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> You could update all copyright notices from GPL2 to GPL3.  This is
> something which should be done before the release, and which is
> completely non-technical.  This would be indeed a great help!

Sure thing - since I'm new to this I just want to make sure I understand 
correctly. Basically what is needed is to upgrade all the source headers from 
GPL2 to the following text:

    This file is part of groff.

    groff is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
    (at your option) any later version.

    groff is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    along with groff.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

So basically I need to rip out the GPL2 part and puts this one in place in 
each and every source file, and then just include the basic LICENSE and 
COPYING files from gplv3 ?

Shouldn't all prior contributors to groff also approve before their code is 
relicensed, or is this handled by the existing sentence saying "GPLv2 or 
later" in current source code?

I downloaded the -current tarball and will base my changes on that one. How 
would you prefer me to submit those changes?

Just wanted confirmation before I start so I don't waste a lot of mine and 
your time. 

Thanks!