Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Dermot McCluskey wrote: > >>OSR approval has now been granted, but with the condition that >>the new legal text be added to the license file, so this new webrev >>modifies the copyright files, prepending the new text: >>http://cr.grommit.com/~dermot/automake-03/ > > > Doesn't modifying the LICENSE file violate the text starting at > line 15 of > http://cr.grommit.com/~dermot/automake-03/usr/src/pkgdefs/SUNWgnu-automake-19/copyright.html > ? > > 15 Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies > 16 of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. > > (Not to mention the horridly tortured wording of the added statement > is going to make everyone's brains hurt trying to figure it out.) >
I thought the new rules were about specifying that Sun is using only GPLv2 when source files note that GPLv2 or later can be used. So the new text is to be added to the source files, not to the actual GPL license file. Dermot, can you get clarification about the instructions you were given? Thanks. Bonnie
