Quoting Holger Wansing (2019-08-06 20:30:56)
> [Adding debian-devel for a bigger audience]
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> wrote:
> > Control: retitle -1 Replace grave accents/single quotes by <quote></quote> in gpl.xml
> >
> > Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Changwoo Ryu, le jeu. 30 mai 2019 22:22:05 +0900, a ecrit:
> > > > In en/appendix/gpl.xml, ordinary double quotes (") and grave
> > > > accent character (`) are used for left single/double quotes. But
> > > > they are not correctly rendered in pdf.
> > > >
> > > > See the English PDF at
> > > > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/install.pdf.en.
> > > > Opening double quotes are rendered as right double quotes. And
> > > > grave accents are rendered just as grave accents, not a left
> > > > single quotes.
> > >
> > > AIUI we should just replace "" and `' in the xml file with
> > > <quote></quote>.
>
> I was about to commit these changes, however it came to my mind if
> such changes to the GPL are allowed?
>
> At least the English variant of the GPL is 'official' and is not to be
> changed, so what about changing the quoting signs into <quote>
> </quote> entities?
Some very narrow interpretation of "not to be changed" disallow making
the text into a PDF at all, as it is not bit-by-bit identical.
GNU GPL-1, GPL-2, and GPL-3 however all permit "verbatim copies" which I
can only interpret as permitting changes to punctuation and whitespace.
- Jonas
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