Bernhard Voelker wrote: > But once this would be fixed, then the whole 'fdl' module (or the 'fdl-1.3' > module?) seems to be redundant, doesn't it? > Couldn't we remove one of them?
The idea of the 'fdl' module is to point to the current version of the GFDL. A maintainer who does not want to be surprised by a silent license change will pick the module with the explicit version number. There is now a notice in the module description "Don't use this module! Instead, copy the referenced license file into your version control repository." but it was installed only recently. Probably there are a number of packages out there that use the 'fdl-1.3' module through gnulib-tool. The "no surprises" argument applies to them. Bruno
