-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Basically, this is not the GPL, but a different license using the same >words in large parts. Maybe the FSF could demand that they call their >license something else (but I don't know whether GPL is registered as a >trademark), but that's about it.
The text of the GPL forbids modification, doesn't it? Such a "GPL except for X and Y" would be a derivative work, wouldn't it? Does that mean that this project is in violation of the terms of distribution of the GPL text? > Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA > Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies > of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. [snip] /me isn't sure what exactly "changing it" means... - -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against html email \ / - against microsoft office attachments X - against text above fullquote below / \ - against lines longer than 79 characters -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Please fetch my new key 804177F8 from hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net/ iD8DBQFEYw7ewyMv24BBd/gRAuoBAJ9vCywaefBAtY9yvKtf9eXn78sOaACfSh8v Fq/rirLYkTDxWWk6JHRnqzs= =FGjr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss