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GPL preamble removal



On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 06:02:50PM +0200, Mika Fischer wrote:
> > And that seems OK to me. Although you can probably restrict yourself to
> > the "TERMS AND CONDITIONS" part.
> 
> I'm sorry but this is wrong. You have to include the whole GPL as you
> did.
> 
> cf. http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLOmitPreamble

You can remove the preamble.

  http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#ModifyGPL

CC RMS: could this please be clarified?  It's causing repeat
confusion, and nobody knows if we're really allowed to remove the
preamble and/or create derivative licenses of the GPL.

-- 
Glenn Maynard



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