>>>>> On Mon, 16 Apr 2018, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Mon, 16 Apr 2018 at 10:50:04 +0200, Giovanni Mascellani wrote: >> this question might be trivial, but I just realized that the GPL >> license is itself licensed under a license that technically does >> not appear to be DFSG compliant:
> We make an exception for the licenses of licenses, because otherwise > we basically wouldn't be able to distribute any software at all (and > it isn't completely clear whether legal texts are copyrightable > anyway). I thought this might be of interest here: In Gentoo we are currently drafting a Certificate of Origin [1]. We are considering a clause (c) containing an explicit exception for license texts. Ulrich [1] https://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/glep-copyrightpolicy.html#certificate-of-origin
