Re: PHPNuke license
Scripsit Simon Law <sfllaw@engmail.uwaterloo.ca>
> One of the strong hints that the GNU GPL is not meant to be part
> of a hybrid license with additional restrictions appears right at the top.
> 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.
> Everyone who generates a "cut-and-paste" license out of the GNU
> GPL is plagerising, and violating copyright law.
That's one reason why one might chose to distribute such a
cut-and-paste license as patches (so to speak) to the GPL rather than
distributed a modified license text.
> If you wish to add additional restrictions before or after the
> GPL, then the total license become inconsistent.
No, it just becomes different from the GPL itself.
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Generelt kan der ikke peges på databehandlingsopgaver af
en sådan størrelsesorden og af en karaktér, som berettiger
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