On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 04:41:23PM -0400, Richard Fontana wrote:
> 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
Hi Trevor,
It took me a second, but now I see where you are going:
In my example, the text file with the license text of GPL-2.0 _is_ exactly that
- the text of the license (hence identifying it as such), however that is not
necessarily the license for the text of the license itself. Hence,
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
On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 12:21:43PM -0700, W. Trevor King wrote:
> There are also other works under that license, e.g. [4], which use the
> exact same language.
>
> Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this
> license document, but changing it is not allowed.
> …
>
While reviewing [1], I noticed:
1 text file with license text of GPL-2.0 = GPL-2.0
That makes sense if we're talking about the estimated project license,
but the license for the GPL-2.0 content itself (which would go in the
*file's* LicenseConcluded [2]) for the is “verbatim copies only” [3].
