Control: tags -1 + pending
lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) wrote: > On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 08:30:56PM +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: > > I was about to commit these changes, however it came to my mind if such > > changes to the GPL are allowed? > > > > At least the English variant of the GPL is 'official' and is not to be > > changed, so what about changing the quoting signs into <quote> </quote> > > entities? > > gpl.xml isn't official. It isn't one of the files from the FSF. > There is a gpl-2.0.dbk[1] version available which in fact does use <quote> > and </quote> while every other file format uses ` and '. So at least > there is precedence for using <quote> tags instead. After all if you > decided to use the docbook file as your source text, you would get the > quotes desired. > > [1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.dbk Therefore I have committed the changes; tagging this bug as pending. Holger -- Holger Wansing <hwans...@mailbox.org> PGP-Fingerprint: 496A C6E8 1442 4B34 8508 3529 59F1 87CA 156E B076
