Re: etags licence?

[Glenn Morris]

Glenn Morris wrote:

>> string "GPL-3 FDL-1.2 BSD" means that all of the contents of the package
>> are available under at least one of those licenses.
>
> Some comments:

[...]

Following up to myself... It depends what that string is supposed to
mean. If it does mean: "every file in this package is under one or
more of these licenses", then it isn't even true as it stands, thanks
to the other exceptions I mentioned.

If it is just supposed to be a "summary" of the overall license for
the "Emacs package", then I don't think there is any problem just
saying that Emacs's code is under GPLv3, and the documentation is
under GFDLv1.2.

The copyright and license information for every file in Emacs is
clearly stated in the file itself or a README (AFAIK, please report
any exceptions!) so the fine detail is all there if people want that
level of information.