Re: (re-)evaluation of notabug.org

[Richard Stallman]

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  > Notabug largely relies on reports from other users as well as a script
  > I run to see if a file such as LICENSE or COPYING exists in all the
  > repos. After which I manually check the ones that do not. This happens
  > about once a month.

That sounds pretty thorough.  I think it qualifies for A9.
We don't have to interpret A9 as "makes it impossible
to have a file of code in the repo without a license notice,
even for a minute."

  > Checking each individual file is not even remotely feasible.

1. How is  checking each individual file
different from what you actually do?
I seem to be missing something.

2. Why not check each commit when it is committed?

3. It may be desirable to make some exceptions to the checking.
Experience would suggest them.



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Dr Richard Stallman
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