There already are a number of licenses with a preamble, recital, or
introduction, and they can be helpful. For example, the CC0 Statement
of Purpose provides important background on how the device is intended
to work. The GPL's preamble provides a non-legalese summary of the
effect of the license,
Roland Turner via License-discuss dixit:
> would/should it be an acceptable condition in an OSI-approved license that an
> unmodified project manifesto be included in any copy of the software? This
Stopping right here: no.
We already had this with GNU “F”DL’s invariant sections.
Consider this:
Positively effective tidings, to you and those you legally claim as dependents.
We wish you, but in no way guarantee, a reasonably satisfactory Christmas,
and/or festive period and/or a non-denominational capitalist wintertime
gift-giving season, and a reasonably satisfactory new twelve (12) mon
