rms and I have been batting around the --version output stuff. Here's what we seem to be settling on:
sort (GNU coreutils) 6.4 Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. rms wanted to have some extra words in there. He wrote: Remember, our goal is NOT merely to give experts information. We need to be looking for opportunities to spread the basic ideas of free software. Never focus on the former in a way that ignores the latter. So the new text above has the machine parsable license id (after License:), but also a one-line expansion of its meaning. And a few words about what free software means. And the shorter warranty line. If any comments, let me know before we inscribe it into standards.texi ... Thanks, Karl
