Bug#929752: Changing quote signs in GPL allowed? [Was: Bug#929752: installation-guide: left quotes in gpl.xml are not correctly rendered in pdf ]
Control: tags -1 + pending
lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 08:30:56PM +0200, Holger Wansing wrote:
> > 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?
>
> gpl.xml isn't official. It isn't one of the files from the FSF.
> There is a gpl-2.0.dbk[1] version available which in fact does use <quote>
> and </quote> while every other file format uses ` and '. So at least
> there is precedence for using <quote> tags instead. After all if you
> decided to use the docbook file as your source text, you would get the
> quotes desired.
>
> [1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.dbk
Therefore I have committed the changes; tagging this bug as pending.
Holger
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