Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > Alessandro and I described scenarios with outcomes that follow from > what the FDL clauses allow (1) and those outcomes we consider > harmful (2). > > (1) was derived by logical conclusion. Your only refutation to them > that I can see, that the FSF could *require* copyright assignments > (rather than ask for them), has been disproven. > > The FSF _requires_ copyright assignments for works to be incoperated > into a GNU project (not all, but most). If it cannot get a copyright > assignment for a change, the change isn't incoperated.
Never mind that Alessandro's and my examples specifically involved the change *not* being incorporated into the original project. Just keep repeating your phrases without looking at the context. > [...] > > Let's say I write a shoot-em-up game, where you're shooting aliens > (similar to, say, Doom). I release that under GPL. > > Now, someone else comes along and changes the game (which they're > perfectly entitled to do under GPL, obviously). Instead of shooting > at aliens, you're now shooting Shia Muslims, as an example. > > They had to add new material to do this, i.e. change the pictures of > the monsters into Shia Muslims. So it isn't as simple as > `modification'. OK, so changing is not modification, I see. Please go on ... Frank -- Frank Heckenbach, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://fjf.gnu.de/ GnuPG and PGP keys: http://fjf.gnu.de/plan (7977168E) _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
