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authorPhil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz>2019-06-25 14:14:22 +0200
committerLars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>2019-06-25 14:14:29 +0200
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README: Mention that the copyright in ELPA is with the FSF
* README: Mention that the copyright in ELPA is with the FSF (bug#23972).
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@@ -160,6 +160,12 @@ Furthermore we recommend the following:
- Use lexical-binding if it all possible.
- Try and fix the warnings emitted when compiling the package with a recent Emacs.
+The Copyright notice should specify "Free Software Foundation, Inc." as
+the copyright holder. Ensure that all the code has the proper copyright:
+if it is not your own code, make sure the author has signed the relevant
+copyright papers (for non-trivial contributions), and indicate the author
+correctly in the commit.
+
** External branches
The above instructions are enough to add regular packages, those that