GPL exception ???

2003-05-30 Thread Sven Luther
Hello, ... I came on a program that is distributed under the GPL with the addition of the following exception : Derivative works must not remove the original author's copyright notices, name or comments from source code and documentation. Doing so will violate the license. I had the

Re: GPL exception ???

2003-05-30 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Fri, 30 May 2003, Sven Luther wrote: Derivative works must not remove the original author's copyright notices, name or comments from source code and documentation. Doing so will violate the license. I had the impression that the GPL already provides for forcing the original

Re: GPL exception ???

2003-05-30 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] I had the impression that the GPL already provides for forcing the original copyright notice and author name to stay in the modified work, but could not pinpoint the exact place of it. I'd point to clause 1 (which is referred to from clause 2): keep

Re: The debate on Invariant sections (long)

2003-05-30 Thread Richard Stallman
At least one situation comes to mind where it might happen: If I wanted to publish a collection of HOWTOs, e.g., from the LDP. If every one of them included front and back cover texts, that'd be a mountain. There is no difficulty at all here. This collection would be an aggregate,

Re: The debate on Invariant sections (long)

2003-05-30 Thread Thomas Uwe Gruettmueller
Hi RMS, On Mittwoch 28 Mai 2003 00:40, Richard Stallman wrote: A political essay is (typically) written by certain persons to persuade the public of a certain position. If it is modified, it does not do its job. So it makes sense, socially, to say that these cannot be modified. Then, why

Re: GDB manual

2003-05-30 Thread Walter Landry
Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately, other people purporting to act on behalf of the FSF do. Did they really claim to be speaking for the FSF, or were they just expressing support for the FSF? Anyone can do the latter, but we did not ask anyone to speak for the FSF