Re: xfig-doc has license problems in examples
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 11:28:08AM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote:
> Sunnanvind Briling Fenderson <sunnanvind@fenderson.com>:
> > There's been several instances of "GPL-ripoffs", e.g. people basing
> > their own licenses on the GNU GPL, or was I dreaming that?
>
> I've never seen a licence that includes a large part of the GPL that
> wasn't the entire unmodified GPL. Copying ideas or short extracts of
> text is not forbidden by copyright law.
I have. Try the "Choral Public Domain License"
(http://cpdl.snaptel.com/license.htm), which is essentially the GPL with
"software" replaced by "music". Was constructing that licence a
copyright infringement?
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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