Re: GPL - specifying the preferred form for modification

2005-02-01 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 04:14:15PM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: This has come up several times, so I'm CCing [EMAIL PROTECTED] to get their take on this. FSF folks: please ignore the documentation aspect above; I'm interested in the general problem of people specifying the preferred form for

Re: GPL - specifying the preferred form for modification

2005-01-31 Thread Frank Küster
Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Glenn Maynard wrote: The GPL very deliberately does not specify the preferred form for modification, and authors shouldn't do so (at least not in a legally-binding way or an attempt to interpret the GPL). Right. I think there is no harm in saying

Re: GPL - specifying the preferred form for modification

2005-01-29 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Glenn Maynard wrote: The GPL very deliberately does not specify the preferred form for modification, and authors shouldn't do so (at least not in a legally-binding way or an attempt to interpret the GPL). Right. I think there is no harm in saying My preferred form for modification is the

Re: GPL - specifying the preferred form for modification

2005-01-29 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 03:22:53PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Note, also, that the GPL says preferred form for modification, not the form for modification preferred by the original author. Indeed. Specifying the form the original author preferred should not act as a restriction,

GPL - specifying the preferred form for modification

2005-01-28 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 09:49:08PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: Let's assume a piece of technical documentation (standalone, i.e not part of a software package; something like selfhtml or LaTeX's lshort), is licensed under GPL, with an additional text stating what the preferred form for