Re: proposal for gpl module

[Simon Josefsson]

"Oskar Liljeblad" <address@hidden> writes:

> I saw the fdl module, which is nice because my GNU project GMediaServer uses
> fdl.texi in its documentation. It however also uses gpl.texi, which is why I
> propose this module.

Good idea.

> +License:
> +public domain

This seems wrong though, the license of the GPL is:

  Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
  of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.

I'm not sure how to best describe this.  I note that the fdl module
has the same problem:

  doc/fdl.texi
  ...
  License:
  public domain

How about a new license 'unmodifiable license text', which we fix in
gnulib-tool to be compatible with other licenses?

--- gnulib-tool 30 Aug 2006 09:28:45 +0200      1.150
+++ gnulib-tool 30 Aug 2006 09:34:03 +0200      
@@ -1404,7 +1404,7 @@
     for module in $modules; do
       license=`func_get_license $module`
       case $license in
-        LGPL | 'GPLed build tool' | 'public domain' | 'unlimited') ;;
+        LGPL | 'GPLed build tool' | 'public domain' | 'unlimited' | 
'unmodifiable license text') ;;
         *) func_fatal_error "incompatible license on module $module: $license" 
;;
       esac
     done

Btw, below is a LGPL module as well.

/Simon

2006-08-30  Simon Josefsson  <address@hidden>

        * modules/lgpl: New file.

--- MODULES.html.sh     30 Aug 2006 09:28:45 +0200      1.145
+++ MODULES.html.sh     30 Aug 2006 09:35:11 +0200      
@@ -2117,6 +2117,7 @@
   func_begin_table
   func_module fdl
   func_module gendocs
+  func_module lgpl
   func_module regexprops-generic
   func_end_table
 
Index: modules/lgpl
===================================================================
RCS file: modules/lgpl
diff -N modules/lgpl
--- /dev/null   1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000
+++ modules/lgpl        30 Aug 2006 07:35:49 -0000
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+Description:
+Provide the GNU Lesser General Public License in Texinfo format.
+
+Files:
+doc/lgpl.texi
+
+Depends-on:
+
+configure.ac:
+
+Makefile.am:
+
+Include:
+
+License:
+unmodifiable license text
+
+Maintainer:
+all