On 30 Nov 2000, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Brian Mays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > You can copy it, distribute it, you can even sell it, but you cannot > > change it. Funny, isn't it: the GPL is the only part of a GPLed project > > that you are *not* allowed to modify. > > Well, that's not actually entirely true; other political documents are > also not modifiable (like the GNU Manifesto, for example, and other > such sections of various manuals). > > However, you are certainly free to make a Brian Mays Public License, > take lots of text from the GPL, and issue that. The real issue is the > integrity of the text under the name "GPL".
Are you? GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991 Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. By law, what is not explicitly permitted is prohibited. You are permitted ONLY to make verbatim copies, you are not allowed to use it as a basis for your own license because there is no explicit permission for it. In fact there is an explicit denial of the right to make any change at all to it, one that is not delimited by further discussion, so is therefore absolute by law. > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Customer: "I'm running Windows '98" Tech: "Yes." Customer: "My computer isn't working now." Tech: "Yes, you said that." Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!