Re: license notices for README, INSTALL, NEW etc.

[Chong Yidong]

Yoni Rabkin <address@hidden> writes:

> I volunteer for the GPL Compliance Lab
> [http://www.fsf.org/licensing/index_html]. A recent email we received
> was from someone who wants to use the information in the NEWS files of
> GNU packages such as Emacs under the terms of the GFDL, but couldn't
> because GNU/Emacs is packaged with all of those files licensed under the
> terms of the GNU GPL.
>
> The GNU maintainers manual suggests using a permissive license for those
> files
> [http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#License-Notices-for-Other-Files]
> (A copy of the text from the above link is included below for
> convenience).
>
> Unless there is some reason GNU/Emacs should be distributed differently
> from other GNU packages, I don't mind preparing and sending-in a patch
> to modify the license notices.

Sounds fine to me.  Can you speak for the FSF?