we should be generating it automatically from findutils My recollection is that James does generate it from findutils, and checks in the new version to gnulib, or sends it to me, or something like that. James will inform us, I'm sure.
I am inclined to finesse the license issue by using the all-permissive text, which is compatible with everything. Admittedly the file is a bit long, but it's also boring and automatically generated, essentially a transliteration of the code. So somehow that feels ok to me. BTW, I will be offline the next two days. Whatever you-all want to do ...