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GPL licences have misnumbered sections. #4

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itsjohncs opened this issue Dec 22, 2013 · 2 comments
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GPL licences have misnumbered sections. #4

itsjohncs opened this issue Dec 22, 2013 · 2 comments

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@itsjohncs
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The first item/section in the GNU GPLv3 should be labeled 0, but it is instead labeled 1. This should definitely be fixed as this can change the meaning of the document, and may mess up some things. It also breaks the changing it is not allowed restriction placed on the license by the FSF.

This can be solved via inline HTML as this StackOverflow post describes, or section headers can be used instead.

I personally favor section headers because you have the potential to easily link to them.
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nevir commented Dec 24, 2013

Ack, good find!

I've updated the GPLv3 license to address this. GPLv2 needs it too; I'll get to that next

@JamesSkemp
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It looks like this was resolved by 7ec6d5e and 57a3c2c, yes?

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