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Re: (end of) Development and documentation in Debian



On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 04:23:36PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Tyler Smith wrote:
> > I understand there have been some situations where an author attempted
> > to undermine the license by declaring an entire document to be
> > invariant. This is clearly not the case here, though.
> 
>     That is immaterial.  It's like saying that if code were pretty much
> entirely free except for, say, a few choice segments or that if such
> provisions were in the GPL and the original programmer declared the entire
> codebase "invariant" it was still open and free.

Doesn't the GPL require you to maintain the copyright notice?
Does that make it nonfree?

-- hendrik



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