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Re: LICENSE appendix kept untouched ?



>From the GPL FAQ:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLOmitPreamble

"The preamble and instructions are integral parts of the GNU GPL and may
not be omitted. In fact, the GPL is copyrighted, and its license permits
only verbatim copying of the entire GPL. (You can use the legal terms to
make another license but it won't be the GNU GPL.)"

~ Barry



On Tue, 2011-11-08 at 21:33 -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Hi Julien,
> 
> Julien Jehannet wrote:
> 
> > 2. Is the appendix section must/should/may be present ?
> >
> >    Example:
> >    - the `Gnomovision` example in GPL-2 file
> 
> The GPL-2 says:
> 
>  Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
>  of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
> 
> I suspect that the FSF considers the section "How to Apply These Terms
> to Your New Programs" to be part of the license document, but you'd
> have to ask them to be sure.  Though this doesn't have much to do with
> Debian. :)
> 
> Hope that helps,
> Jonathan
> 
> 



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