However, some legal nitpickers might say that the line "you are free
to change and redistribute it" establishes different licensing
You are right, it might happen, but I just can't get too excited about
catering to such people. It would be a truly outrageous interpretation
of a simple explanatory sentence.
The "you are free to change and redistribute it" explains more about
the free software idea than the previous texts did.
Yep, which is why rms wants it in there :).
Anyway, rms hasn't given the final nod yet. We'll update the coding
standards when it's in.
Thanks for the feedback, of course.