> > Has it occurred to anyone that the GPL isn't DFSG free? :> Not programs
> > licensed under it, but the license itself, which cannot be modified or
> > altered? :>
>
> Of course the license can be altered. It's not a creative work, it's
> a license, and license text is not protected by copyrig
> > cannot modify the GPL. It's copyrighted by the FSF. You may only
> > distribute it verbatim. Ergo, you can't tack anything onto the end, even
> > if you rename it.. (The copyright permits /nothing/ except verbatim
> > distribution. This is v2.)
>
> And what we were getting at earlier was tryin
> Peter Galbraith writes:
> > Any comments from the legal crowd? Any standard add-on XForms packages
> > can add to the GPL?
>
> "You are permitted to link this program or any program derived from it to
> XForms" should suffice, I would think.
What I was getting at earlier was trying to gently p
> > licensed under it, but the license itself, which cannot be modified or
> > altered? :>
> > Does this mean we have to move the GPL out of main? ;>
>
> The GPL (and the DFSG, by the way) stands for software. For other stuff
> (documentation, literary work, art, standards, licences themselves),
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