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diff --git a/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml b/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml
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@@ -713,19 +713,18 @@ setup the tests. Run "make test" to run all the tests.
 </section>
 <section id="CodingGuidelines"><title>Coding guidelines</title>
         <para>See <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_toc.html">GNU
-        Coding standards</ulink> for general guidelines.</para>
+        Coding standards</ulink> for general guidelines.
+        Some parts of the guidelines (namely and explicitly the coding style)
+        are not seen as best practice by us.</para>
         <section><title>C coding</title>
 
-        <para>Variables should be declared at the beginning of code blocks and
-        not inline because of portability with older compilers.</para>
-
         <para>You should use the type "bool" and its values
         "true" and "false" instead of the "int" type for booleans.
         </para>
         </section>
 
         <section><title>Crediting sources</title>
-        <para>If you have copied a routine from another source, make sure the licence
+        <para>If you have copied a routine from another source, make sure the license
         from your source allows this. Add a comment referencing the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
         file, where you can put more detail about the source.</para>
         <para>For contributed code, do not add any named credits in the source code