-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/13/07 02:45, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 12 septembre 2007 à 16:51 +0200, Romain Beauxis a écrit : >> It often start with "GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE" and it' clearly written: >> " Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies >> of this license document, but changing it is not allowed." >> >> Shouldn't we garantee the right for our users to modify LICENCEs ?? > > This common belief that the GPL text itself is non-free is unfounded. > > Can I modify the GPL and make a modified license? > You can use the GPL terms (possibly modified) in another license > provided that you call your license by another name and do not > include the GPL preamble, and provided you modify the > instructions-for-use at the end enough to make it clearly > different in wording and not mention GNU (though the actual > procedure you describe may be similar). > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#ModifyGPL
Paraphrasing Luk Claes: besides we as Debian only want our users the freedom to be able to if they wanted it, to willy-nilly modify the GPL text. Quoting Mirim Ruiz: What about ... changing the format or structure for clarifying, or even fixing typos? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG6QBFS9HxQb37XmcRAmEkAJ9goi6FU3cRl/xzL32YrhBHltI3lwCgv/9i 8CHcbj26DjNXXB350O9h5cE= =6HV0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]