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Re: Poll results: User views on the FDL issue



On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 10:49:01AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
> Glenn Maynard wrote:
> > The preamble can be removed, but not from other people's works; when
> > the GPL is attached to a work, the preamble is a full-blown invariant
> > section.
> 
> Can't one just license the work under trivial-not-GPL which is
> the GPL's terms but no preamble? I remember that being given
> as the reason the GPL refers to "the terms of this License"
> rather than just "this License" but I don't remember who told me.

You can do so for your own work, but you can't do so to someone else's.
GPL#1 says "give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this
License along with the Program", and the preamble is considered part
of the license.

-- 
Glenn Maynard



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