Re: www/prep/maintain/html_node Copyright-Papers.html

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

      I'm sorry but I wasn't familiar with how GNU Coding Standards
      are edited and I made the below change directly to gnu.org.

      I would like to ensure that it is permanent and is included in
      the source code. Can someone here help?

   What is the change you want to add? Do you have a diff or
   something?

I am guessing that it is something like this, please verify ... I'll
need RMS approval before this can be installed.

@@ -312,8 +312,13 @@
 
 GNU packages need not be FSF-copyrighted; this is up to the author(s),
 generally at the time the package is dubbed GNU@.  When copyright is
-assigned to the FSF, the FSF can act to stop GPL violations about the
-package.  Otherwise, legal actions are up to the author(s).  The rest
+assigned to the FSF, the FSF has authority to act to stop GPL
+violations about the package (otherwise, legal actions are up to the
+author(s)).  It also allows us to grant additional permissions on a
+package, such as an exception, if the need should arise. Additionally,
+holding the copyright allows us to upgrade the license of a package
+even if it had been initially released under "GPLv2 only" (instead of
+the "or later" licensing option as recommended by the FSF). The rest
 of this section is about the case when a package is FSF-copyrighted.


A comment, the use of "us" is confusing -- is it the GNU project or
the FSF this refers to?  This should probobly be the GNU project, with
advice from the FSF but I don't know.

I'm considering reverting the change you did to the HTML file, the
files are generated from Texinfo .. any changes will be overwritten
the next time those files get regenerated from the canonical sources
(which have changes that have not been synced yet -- so if I were to
regenerate the HTML files this change would get lost silently!).