Dear Mark, In message <[email protected]> you wrote: > > As a general rule of thumb, one should *not* modify the licensing > terms of another copyright holder. Adding an SPDX Identifier to an > existing file is one thing. Removing (or modifying) license notices > by a non-copyright holder is another and a bad idea.
This is the exact question I'm trying to get an official position for. >From the technical point of view the substitution of the (onmodified, standard) GPL license text by a reference pointing to the same text seems harmless. [We could consider this some form of "include" statement.] But IANANL, so it would be intersting for me what for example the FSF or the SFLC think about such replacement of the GPL text. > Especially if you end up with less information (e.g., loss of > warrantee disclaimers, copyright notices, important license text, > ...). Note that I explicitly talk only about the unmodified body of some standard license text. Any other text like what you list here is obvioulsy a different thing and must never be touched. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, Managing Director: Wolfgang Denk HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: [email protected] No user-servicable parts inside. Refer to qualified service personnel. _______________________________________________ Spdx-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx-tech
