Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom
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On 09/13/07 02:45, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mercredi 12 septembre 2007 à 16:51 +0200, Romain Beauxis a écrit :
>> It often start with "GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE" and it' clearly written:
>> " Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
>> of this license document, but changing it is not allowed."
>>
>> Shouldn't we garantee the right for our users to modify LICENCEs ??
>
> This common belief that the GPL text itself is non-free is unfounded.
>
> Can I modify the GPL and make a modified license?
> You can use the GPL terms (possibly modified) in another license
> provided that you call your license by another name and do not
> include the GPL preamble, and provided you modify the
> instructions-for-use at the end enough to make it clearly
> different in wording and not mention GNU (though the actual
> procedure you describe may be similar).
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#ModifyGPL
Paraphrasing Luk Claes:
besides we as Debian only want our users the freedom to
be able to if they wanted it, to willy-nilly modify the
GPL text.
Quoting Mirim Ruiz:
What about ... changing the format or structure for
clarifying, or even fixing typos?
- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!
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