GNU Coding Standards - News
posted by karl, Mon May 21 00:47:11 2012 - 0 replies
ftp uploads now require an explicit replace directive to replace an existing file. (v1.2 of the ftp upload protocol.) See the
node "FTP Upload Directive File - v1.2", aka
http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/FTP-Upload-Directive-File-_002d-v1_002e2.html.
Also, v1.0 directives are no longer supported.
posted by karl, Mon Jan 2 00:21:16 2012 - 0 replies
Some recent changes in the GNU Coding
Standards and Maintainer Information documents follow. The current versions
are available online at http://www.gnu.org/prep.
- As previously mentioned, but worth repeating, US contributors can now make use of an
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posted by karl, Wed Oct 12 23:30:58 2011 - 0 replies
Our friends at the Software Freedom Law Center have just informed us
that the FSF can safely accept scanned copies of signed assignments from
U.S. residents. We are also looking into the possibility of this working
for foreign contributors as well, but for now it is limited to U.S.
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posted by karl, Sat Nov 13 00:48:11 2010 - 0 replies
New node with sample text for packages wishing to ask for donations: http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Donations.html.
posted by karl, Wed Oct 27 17:37:27 2010 - 0 replies
As long as information is not lost, it is now ok to use ranges in copyright years. Specifically: 1) every year in the range, inclusive, really must be a ``copyrightable'' year that would be listed individually; and 2) you make an explicit statement in a @file{README} file about this usage.
http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Notices.html has been updated.
posted by karl, Wed Aug 25 00:11:52 2010 - 0 replies
Encouraging development of free plug-ins, and discouraging development of proprietary plug-ins.
http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Dynamic-Plug_002dIn-Interfaces.html
posted by karl, Thu May 13 23:50:18 2010 - 0 replies
The primary distribution site for GNU packages should allow access from anyone (for instance, without excluding any country).
posted by karl, Sat Dec 12 00:11:16 2009 - 0 replies
Following CVE-2009-4029, we now recommend ensuring that distribution tarballs are created with mode 755, not 777. The latest releases of automake (1.11.1 and 1.10.3) implement this.
posted by karl, Thu Nov 6 18:04:48 2008 - 0 replies
The licenses of the GNU coding standards and maintainer documents have been upgraded to GNU FDL version 1.3 or later. Other GNU documentation using the FDL should do the same at the next release. See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html.
posted by karl, Mon May 5 17:26:24 2008 - 0 replies
Note that Guile has good support for GTK+/GNOME these days. As Andy Wingo writes:
The eventual hope is for a different, more dynamic paradigm of
software, software that has the emacs-property.
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