Following the earlier discussion with Graham and others, this patch
slightly rewrites the COPYING file to clarify the Lilypond licensing
situation.
It might also be sensible to add a line mentioning that docs are
released under GFDL, and a separate COPYING.DOCUMENTATION file that
contains that license.
Best wishes,
-- Joe
From d1ee19e7d7dd10d0504ebec2a621d675087f0f70 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net>
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:58:09 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] COPYING rewrite to clarify licensing.
* Text is closer to FSF guidelines and explicitly states that
Lilypond is released under GPLv2 only.
---
COPYING | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++------------------
1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
diff --git a/COPYING b/COPYING
index 3ad0007..da2d00d 100644
--- a/COPYING
+++ b/COPYING
@@ -1,21 +1,23 @@
-If you want to redistribute LilyPond, you must comply with the GNU
-General Public License (reproduced below). This license applies to
-LilyPond with the following exceptions:
-
-- It does not apply to example input files (which are in
-the subdirectory input/) that explicitly specify another license.
-
-- If you create a document which uses fonts included in LilyPond, and
-embed this font or unaltered portions of this font into the document,
-then this font does not by itself cause the resulting document to be
-covered by the GNU General Public License. This exception does not
-however invalidate any other reasons why the document might be covered
-by the GNU General Public License. If you modify this font, you may
-extend this exception to your version of the font, but you are not
-obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception
-statement from your version.
-
-
+GNU Lilypond is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License as
+published by the Free Software Foundation. A copy of the license is
+contained in this file.
+
+The following exceptions are granted to this license:
+
+ -- It does not apply to example input files (contained in the
+ subdirectory input/) that explicitly specify another license.
+
+ -- If you create a document which uses fonts included in Lilypond,
+ and embed this font or unaltered portions of this font into the
+ document, then this font does not by itself cause the resulting
+ document to be covered by the GNU General Public License. This
+ exception does not however invalidate any other reasons why the
+ document might be covered by the GNU General Public License.
+ If you modify one or more of the fonts, you may extend this
+ exception to your version of the fonts but you are not obliged
+ to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception
+ statement from your version.
GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
--
1.6.3.3
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