Re: 'fdl' vs. 'fdl-1.3': difference and/or redundant?

[Bruno Haible]

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