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Strictness


From: Carl Fürstenberg
Subject: Strictness
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 17:21:51 +0200

In plenty of projects I have encountered, the "gnu" strictness is too
strict, but also, the "foreign" strictness is too little sometimes.

Thus I suggest a new strictness, somewhere in between gnu and foreign,
lets call it "relaxed", it's simlar to 'gnu', but only following files
are required:
'INSTALL', 'AUTHORS' and 'README', plus one of 'COPYING.LIB',
'COPYING.LESSER', 'COPYING', or 'LICENSE'.

The reason for this is:
ChangeLog: often mostly a duplicate of svn/cvs logs, seldom really used
NEWS: Often projects uses an other mean of media for news.
LICENSE: some projects calls the license as LICENSE instead of COPYING

-- 
/Carl Fürstenberg <address@hidden>

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