Follow-up Comment #7, task #16067 (project administration):
> I wholeheartedly agree that we must reduce ambiguity and minimize the
> risk of error thereby mitigating the risk of legal exposure. At the
> same time this risk -- a product of likelyhood and impact -- has to be
> weighed against the effort involved.
I think one should be a lawyer in order to estimate the risk. FSF's lawyers
did that and wrote the current recommendations.
Now, what effort would be involved? I guess, preprocessing the files with a
one-line script before comparing them against the output.
> I have asked some other free software
> developers and have looked for inspiration in other GNU
> projects.
This isn't a very strong argument: what if those GNU packages err exactly in
those places?
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