Add a license to changelog.md itself #516
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This could be useful if you are using REUSE and you run their tool for checking that you are properly licensing your sources. |
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One more comment. Instead of the boilerplate it should be recommended to use SPDX tags. |
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Might be, with the "GNU All-Permissive License" I've put in the example, but if you're licensing the CHANGELOG.md with, say, GNU FDL, you're required to put the license in the document itself.
So, to be compliant with such license, you have to include it:
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Following GNU project / FSF requirements I received for my projects on Savannah (NonGNU) software forgery (https://savannah.nongnu.org/users/marcobresciani) I think it should be nice to add a License concept for the CHANGELOG.md file itself.
There should be a license for the CHANGELOG.md as well, for example the GNU All-Permissive License (see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#GNUAllPermissive) or the GNU FDL (see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html) if the file itself is longer than 300 lines, as suggested by FSF (see https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/License-Notices-for-Other-Files.html), so that the file itself has a license.
If the GNU FDL is used, a "GNU Free Documentation License" section is needed according to the license itself (see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html#addendum:
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Something like this might be nice:
with also the comment header containing the license similar to copyright notices in source files.
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