Natty: Where did my changelogs go?

[Tollef Fog Heen]

]] Martin Pitt 

| Tollef Fog Heen [2010-11-14 22:20 +0100]:
| > ]] Martin Pitt 
| > This looks like a violation of the GPL (v2 at least) 2a):
| > 
| >     a) You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices
| >     stating that you changed the files and the date of any change.
| > 
| > Has anybody looked into that or given that any thought?
| 
| Our legal department has checked GPL, MPL, Apache, Artistic, and a few
| other common licenses, and said that it was okay to ship binaries
| without changelogs (at all -- and now we at least ship the topmost
| bits of it).
| 
| Above clause doesn't apply to binaries, but to the source code
| apparently.

That still means any scripts or files where what's in the source is also
in the binary and where said script or file is changed requires the
changelogs to be present.  Are anybody making sure that's the case?

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