A while ago, Karl encouraged GNU maintainers to just license files like
Well, more precisely, I attempted to clarify rms' recommendation which has been the intention since the early days of GNU. I don't make policy decisions like this myself :). However, I don't see any particular problem with using the no-invariant-GFDL, or with putting the copyright at the end of NEWS, if that's a maintainer's preference. However however, I also see no harm in looking at the first 20 lines instead of the first 10 lines to match the version. My $0.00002 :). karl