[GRASS5] Formatting and wording of copyright and license

Minor glitches with the top copyright and license files.
I will correct them, if nobody has objections.

* Text files should be formatted in 80 columns for reading pleasure.

  GPL.TXT is not, so I will put in the plan text version with fsf
  original 80 columns formatting.

  AUTHORS needs some manual formatting.

* COPYRIGHT could be improved slightly:
  My plan is to replace the paragraph:

  "Individual copyrights upheld by original authors and not
  superceded by the GRASS GPL Copyright. Users must abide by applicable
  copyrights for individual programs where noted."

  with:

  "Parts of GRASS are not copyright by the GRASS development team.
  The original authors hold the copyright and you have to abide
  to their licensing terms where noted."

  I could also add a clarification sentence:

  "(Keep in mind that code linking into GRASS can only be
  distributed if compatible with the GPL.)"

  For redundancy we should also add the Hannover
  Internet addess the file.

Bernhard

On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 10:00:58AM +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote:

Minor glitches with the top copyright and license files.
I will correct them, if nobody has objections.

Nobody had objections, so I done the proposed changes.
  Bernhard
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