On 6 Dec 2001, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Nevertheless, I do not think it is the FSF's intention to forbid > > otherwise GPL-compatible licenses from requiring that their own license > > texts be preserved in GPL'ed derivative works. > > It's certainly not the intention; such a reading is obviously > fallacious given the FSF's own practice. (Many parts of the C > library, for example, retain the copyrights [including the "don't > remove this" clause] of the upstream origins; the LGPL and the GPL do > not differ in this regard.) >
I realise that it's not the FSF's intention. But I still don't see how they reconcile it with the actual text of the GPL. Does anyone have any insight into this, or should I just mail them? -- Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UK http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/ "This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01
