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Re: xfig-doc has license problems in examples



On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 07:54:58PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Raul Miller <moth@debian.org> writes:
> > If it said that modifications were allowed, that could be
> > construed to mean that you could modify the license on a
> > GPLed work to something other than the GPL.
> 
> The real fear is that someone could change the text in various ways
> and continue to call it the GPL.

Then perhaps it should just say that ("modified versions of this license
may not be called the GPL without prior written permission of the Free
Software Foundation" or similar).

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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