On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 02:20:20PM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote: > It does seem to be in line with RMS's statement that for a program to be > GPL-compatible, you need to be able to release a modified version of it > under the GPL. This wouldn't allow that. Wrong. All you have to do is make enough of a modification to earn copyright protection on it. You license that under the GPL. The license on the original work is GPL-compatible if it permits itself to be distributed as part of a GPLed work (which is what my initial approach to the endorsements clause was doing). You are arguing for the ability to literally change the license on a work *without changing it* from the perspective of copyright law. -- G. Branden Robinson | Somewhere, there is a .sig so funny Debian GNU/Linux | that reading it will cause an branden@debian.org | aneurysm. This is not that .sig. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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