On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 05:31:31AM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 10:56:57AM +0100, Peter Vandenabeele wrote: > > An interesting consequence of this proposal is that a Copy-Exact of > > the GPL License could not longer go into main (as it is essentially > > one large invariant section. I quote from GPL: > > "Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies > > of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.") > > This is false. I suggest you read the rest of the thread to see why, > or any of the other three or four hundred times people have tried to > convince us that Free Software is hopeless and we should just give > up by claiming that license documents can't go in main.
I am fairly new to this list, but I have followed this thread for some time now. I did not understand why a document with invariant sections cannot be part of "Free/main" (in the Debian context) and the GPL license which states that it only allows verbatim copies can be. I would appreciate to receive a pointer to an explanation. Thanks for helping me on that, Peter
