[groff] 05/15: LICENSES: Clarify disjunctive licensing status.

[G. Branden Robinson]

gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
in repository groff.

commit 8f536bd0cbf2764bc51a7c025f22d5719937f051
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Sat May 17 12:07:48 2025 -0500

    LICENSES: Clarify disjunctive licensing status.
    
    Everything groff ships is "disjunctively"[1] licensed under the GNU
    GPLv3; several components, in the main distribution and in "contrib/",
    bear additional, more permissive licenses.
    
    [1] Meaning that separate license provisions (read: license texts)
        attach to the entire work in parallel and simultaneously, thus
        derivations can select a subset thereof or retain all.  Contrast
        with "conjunctive" licensing, where multiple licenses apply to a
        work, often through a combination of parts of separate origin, and
        all are binding.
---
 LICENSES | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/LICENSES b/LICENSES
index 859bf1adb..3294096cb 100644
--- a/LICENSES
+++ b/LICENSES
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ Files in the contrib/ subdirectory of the source distribution 
are not
 strictly part of groff.  That is, they are distributed with it and are
 Free Software <https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html>, but they
 are not considered essential parts of the distribution.  Further, they
-may bear licenses other than the GPL or the FSF does not administer
+may bear licenses in addition to the GPL, or the FSF does not administer
 their copyrights.  To determine their copyright status and licensing,
 see the "COPYRIGHT" file in the appropriate subdirectory of contrib/.