From 42e422abd242639ecb5e45ea4469960794813a94 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: P. J. McDermott Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 02:59:57 -0400 Subject: copyright: Note SIP compliance of license texts. Yes, a metalicense. --- (limited to 'copyright') diff --git a/copyright b/copyright index e80a30a..f8324ee 100644 --- a/copyright +++ b/copyright @@ -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 : + + *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 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. + Distribution Packaging ====================== -- cgit v0.9.1