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authorP. J. McDermott <pjm@nac.net>2014-03-17 02:59:57 (EDT)
committer P. J. McDermott <pjm@nac.net>2014-03-17 02:59:57 (EDT)
commit42e422abd242639ecb5e45ea4469960794813a94 (patch)
treee3106abd20dbb8cd39b77f4571c40ad0cb2e5198
parent8a12f146a9caa66222737bc98a2db43b491a3674 (diff)
copyright: Note SIP compliance of license texts.
Yes, a metalicense.
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@@ -80,6 +80,41 @@ Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
+Permission to Modify GNU Licenses
+---------------------------------
+
+From <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#ModifyGPL>:
+
+ *Can I modify the GPL and make a modified license?*
+
+ It is possible to make modified versions of the GPL, but it
+ tends to have practical consequences.
+
+ You can legally use the GPL terms (possibly modified) in another license
+ provided that you call your license by another name and do not include
+ the GPL preamble, and provided you modify the instructions-for-use at
+ the end enough to make it clearly different in wording and not mention
+ GNU (though the actual procedure you describe may be similar).
+
+ If you want to use our preamble in a modified license, please write
+ to <licensing@gnu.org> for permission. For this purpose we would want
+ to check the actual license requirements to see if we approve of them.
+
+ Although we will not raise legal objections to your making a modified
+ license in this way, we hope you will think twice and not do it. Such
+ a modified license is almost certainly incompatible with the GNU GPL,
+ and that incompatibility blocks useful combinations of modules. The
+ mere proliferation of different free software licenses is a burden in
+ and of itself.
+
+ Rather than modifying the GPL, please use the exception mechanism
+ offered by GPL version 3.
+
+With the above permission, these licenses are themselves free software and
+comply with ProteanOS's Software Inclusion Policy. However, these files
+describe the terms under which other packages may be used, so of course we do
+not and will not modify these files.
+
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