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licenses upgraded to GNU FDL 1.3+
     posted by karl, Thu 06 Nov 2008 06:04:48 PM UTC - 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.

Guile and GNOME
     posted by karl, Mon 05 May 2008 05:26:24 PM UTC - 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.

maintain.texi now under GFDL
     posted by karl, Thu 17 Jan 2008 05:41:52 PM UTC - 0 replies

The document of information for GNU maintainers is now available under the GFDL (1.2+, with no invariant sections) instead of the verbatim license.

more ftp upload features
     posted by karl, Sat 01 Jul 2006 06:21:12 PM UTC - 0 replies

A new section in maintain.texi (from Ward Vandewege, GNU sysadmin) describes new features supported by the ftp upload program, including making and removing symlinks, replacing files, and archiving old files.

DESTDIR details
     posted by karl, Mon 08 May 2006 01:23:35 PM UTC - 0 replies

new section in make-stds.texi explaining and more strongly recommending DESTDIR. Also, mention that some variables (presently docdir, htmldir, etc.) may not be supported in the currently released Autoconf/Automake.

considering non-GNU standards
     posted by karl, Wed 08 Feb 2006 11:09:59 PM UTC - 0 replies

New section on GNU's policy for implementing standards published by other organizations.

simpler copyright notices
     posted by karl, Sun 25 Dec 2005 11:58:08 PM UTC - 0 replies

the rules for copyright notices, especially the list of years, have been simplified and clarified by rms and the lawyers.

quotes and char sets
     posted by karl, Thu 18 Aug 2005 05:46:45 PM UTC - 0 replies

New sections on quotation characters (`...' in the C locale) and character sets (ASCII).

more documentation formats
     posted by karl, Mon 29 Nov 2004 06:39:26 PM UTC - 0 replies

The coding standards now specify directories and targets for more documentation formats: html, dvi, pdf, and ps, analogous to info.

gnustandards at savannah
     posted by karl, Sun 10 Oct 2004 10:14:17 PM UTC - 0 replies

With rms's approval, the gnustandards project at savannah will now hold the canonical sources for the GNU Coding Standards and Information for GNU Maintainers documents, instead of /gd/gnuorg on fencepost.

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