Btw, I don't follow what would give me the right to "reformat" the license though, the copying information seems pretty clear to me:
I don't have a policy document I can point to, but I know that is the accepted practice. Our web pages are also usually "verbatim only", but verbatim doesn't mean technically "you may not change a single byte": http://gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html#VerbatimCopying k