Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom
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On 09/13/07 10:01, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 04:17:57 -0500, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> said:
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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.
>
> They can, as long as they publish it under a new name.
Great. We agree.
In that case, what's with Luk's desire for the "freedom" to hack RFC
1725 yet still call it RFC 1725?
If I modify /Alice In Wonderland/, should I be able to call it
/Alice In Wonderland/? (Might be a bad example, since it's PD.)
>> Quoting Mirim Ruiz:
>> What about ... changing the format or structure for clarifying, or
>> even fixing typos?
>
> Sure, as long as you change the name of the result and call it
> Rons General Public License.
>
> There is also a pragmatic distinction: License textsembody the
> permission under which we can distribute the software; RFC's do not.
> We can't retroactively change the license terms we distribute the
> software under; so hacking up a license, under law, would mean we can
> not distribute the result. That one point of law makes a critical,
> pragmatic difference; so a Work, and the terms of the licesne which
> grants us the right to modify and distribute the work, have to be
> treated differently -- or else we have no distribution.
- --
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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