On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 2:22 PM, W. Trevor King <wking@...> wrote:
Discussion spawned by my v1 Verbatim proposal [1] seems to have died down, so here's a v2. Changes since v1:
* Renamed from ‘Verbatim’ to ‘GNUVerbatim’ to allow for other verbatim names in the future (e.g. if someone wants to register [2] as GNUVerbatimWeb [3] or wants to register non-GNU verbatim license). * Suggested <alt> tags to match the wording used by the GNU CC General Public License [4,5] or non-license documents.
# Motivation
The GPL family of licenses (e.g. [6]) and some other documents (e.g. [7]) are licensed under a verbatim license (canonical text attached). The GNU CC General Public License (1988) was also released under very similar language [4]. I propose we add this license with markup like:
…copies of this <alt name="doc" match="license|document|license document">license document</alt>, but …
so we can express all of those closely related licenses with the GNUVerbatim short ID without resorting to custom LicenseRef-*.
Trevor: Is this a joke or are you seriously suggesting that you want to track the license of licenses? Would there not be a risk of infinite recursion!? e.g. your GNUVerbatim license license should be what then? GNUVerbatimVerbatim? or would it instead self-reference itself in some strange loop? -- Cordially Philippe Ombredanne