On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 01:28:07PM -0700, W. Trevor King wrote: > It's not clear to if the Verbatim license is long enough to be > copyrightably, but if it is I'd guess it's copyright 1989 by the FSF > and self-licensed under the Verbatim license as a subset of the GPL > 1.0 (unless someone can turn up an earlier reference).
Out of curiosity I searched a bit just now and found in the earliest extant GCC release, apparently from 1988, the license (GNU CC General Public License) has this slightly different meta-license: Copyright (C) 1987 Richard M. Stallman Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license, but changing it is not allowed. There is no corresponding metalicense in the Emacs General Public License, which I believe was the first of the proto-GPLs. IHTBTG but ... if you want to go down this path, do you want to consider such things as, say, the fact that the vast majority of the other license texts recognized by SPDX have no explicit metalicense? (I wonder if the idea of even nonfreely licensing the GPL license texts was actually an innovation of the FSF.) Richard _______________________________________________ Spdx-legal mailing list Spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx-legal
