On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 04:19:13PM -0500, Brian Mays wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nils Lohner) writes: > > > ps. what license is the GPL itself under? :) > > You can copy it, distribute it, you can even sell it, but you cannot > change it. Funny, isn't it: the GPL is the only part of a GPLed project > that you are *not* allowed to modify.
This is not true. There are other parts you must not modify, like the Copyright notice itself and author information. Also read clause 2.c) in the GPL. If you change anything, you also must document the changes including date (not explanations, but the fact you changed). It makes sense to prohibit modifying the GPL: You'd end up if a lot of very similar licenses, and we had to use diff everytime. Also, the preamble of the GPL has no generic technical value, and the actual license text can be reused (it says that you can't copyright legal text like this) whenever you want. Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de
