Re: --version output change proposal

[Karl Berry]

    However, some legal nitpickers might say that the line "you are free
    to change and redistribute it" establishes different licensing

You are right, it might happen, but I just can't get too excited about
catering to such people.  It would be a truly outrageous interpretation
of a simple explanatory sentence.

    The "you are free to change and redistribute it" explains more about
    the free software idea than the previous texts did.

Yep, which is why rms wants it in there :).

Anyway, rms hasn't given the final nod yet.  We'll update the coding
standards when it's in.

Thanks for the feedback, of course.