maintain.texi isn't GFDL compatible

[Tim Retout-3]

Hi Karl, everyone,

`Information For Maintainers of GNU Software' has the license notice:

        Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of
        this entire document without royalty provided the copyright
        notice and this permission notice are preserved.

It might be nice to release it under the same terms as the `GNU Coding
Standards':

        Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
        document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
        Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software
        Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover
        Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is
        included in the section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation
        License''.

I don't see a good reason why the old license is being used, when most
GNU documentation is moving towards the GFDL; it differs from the
license notice on the gnustandards Savannah project. Further, I was told
that documentation incompatible with the GFDL shouldn't be hosted on
Savannah. ;)

--
Tim Retout <diocles@...>

[Karl Berry]

Hi Tim,

    It might be nice to release it under the same terms as the `GNU Coding
    Standards':

I asked rms.  We'll see.

    I don't see a good reason why the old license is being used,

maintain.texi is not exactly documentation of a program, but of specific
procedures for GNU maintainers.  My guess is that rms saw no need for
anyone to modify it, etc.

    that documentation incompatible with the GFDL shouldn't be hosted on
    Savannah. ;)

True, but savannah being a GNU project, and this being a GNU standard
direct from rms, it gets special dispensation :).

karl