[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl Berry) writes: > I very much doubt we can reliably maintain a url for each version of > each license.
For GNU licenses, it might be simpler if the --version output merely referred to <http://gnu.org/licenses>, as that will make the output shorter and the instructions for maintainers simpler. I suspect that this URL won't change more often than the FSF changes physical mail addresses, so it'll be good enough in practice. (In this URL I dropped the "www." and the trailing "/" in the interest of brevity.) Using a generic URL like <http://gnu.org/licenses> also would help educate users about the variety of GNU licenses, e.g., the documentation is typically under a different license from the source. However, if we can't use a generic URL for legal reasons, then surely the GNU project should be able to maintain reliable URLs for each major version of its own licenses. Non-GNU projects will have to be responsible for their own license URLs, but that's their problem.
