Re: {SPAM} Re: Anton's amendment
On Thu, 2 Feb 2006 18:49:25 +0000, Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org> said:
> This one time, at band camp, Daniel Ruoso said:
>> > So, if I were to write a program, which at startup displays the
>> > entiretity of the GNU Manifesto, and wrote a license, which would
>> > be GPL with the addition that the startup display may not be
>> > modified, only amended, you would consider this program a DFSG
>> > program and it could go into main?
>>
>> IMHO, it's non-free. It's completely reasonable to want to remove
>> the startup display at all...
> Except that the GPL already explicitly precludes modifications of
> this type (not this scope, but this type, mind you), and our
> foundation documents consider the GPL a free license.
A difference in degree is still a difference.
manoj
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