On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 11:23:41AM +1000, Mary Gardiner wrote: > On Sun, Jun 06, 2004, Ken Foskey wrote: > > GPL is very specific, you cannot create a license that says that you > > cannot use it in a commercial instance. > > More specifically, the GPL is itself copyright *and not modifiable*. At > the top it reads: > > Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies > of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. > > http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html > http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php > > In other words, you cannot add and subtract clauses from the GPL to make > your own custom GPL. (Nor can you do this and call it something else: > calling it "Mary's Super Special Licence" doesn't stop it being a > copyright violation.)
But see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#ModifyGPL. - Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
