On Wednesday, August 30, 2006 at 09:27, Simon Josefsson wrote:
[..]
> > +public domain
> 
> This seems wrong though, the license of the GPL is:
> 
>   Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
>   of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
> 
> I'm not sure how to best describe this.  I note that the fdl module
> has the same problem:
> 
>   doc/fdl.texi
>   ...
>   License:
>   public domain
> 
> How about a new license 'unmodifiable license text', which we fix in
> gnulib-tool to be compatible with other licenses?

Sounds good with me... I was under the impression that license texts were
essentially in the public domain, but that's probably not true.

Regards,

Oskar


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