> Build process takes trunk.pp6/src/etc/copyright and embeds it into 
> executable, so that ')copyright' can show it.  For easy 
> finding/viewing there is http://fricas.sourceforge.net/copyright.txt

Still, I would argue, that the /license directory is the better place to
put that file. The build process can certainly also take it from there.

>> Why would the filename LICENSE.AXIOM matter?
> 
> Well, lawyers can invent funny arguments.

Your right. Isn't that funny that we are afraid of lawyers that
complicate life.

> Current arrangement avoid need to _think_ about possible legal
> subtleties.

I cannot think of a reasonable argument that any lawyer would come up
with. And since FriCAS is not a cashcow, probably no lawyer will ever
even look at the code. ;-)

> Another thing is that keeping licence files as-is it is easier to
> people who want to check if anything changed.

That's a non-issue. We have a couple of commits that only change whitespace.

Ralf

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