GNU GPL for documents, too?

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From: David V. Wallace
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1992 05:49

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   Date: 16 Mar 92 12:07:58 GMT
   From: neuhaus@vier.informatik.uni-kl.de (Stephan Neuhaus (HiWi Mattern))

   The Situation:  I have a bunch of TeX files.  I want to give them away. 
   I want to make sure that everybody who's got the documents may modify
   them or give them away.  I want to make sure that everybody has, or can
   get, the source code.

Check out the GNU Emacs Manual or GDB manual (distributed with each of
those programs) for examples of how to do this easily.  Actually any
GNU manual will work, but those are probably the easiest examples for
you to find.

   The Question:  May I modify the GPL to suit my needs?  If anybody
   (especially somebody at the FSF) wants to see what I did to the GPL, i
   can send it via email, or even post it.

You can write your own license to say whan you want, and in fact you
could use the GNU GPL as an example, but you couldn't call the result
the GNU General Public License.  Happily, since the existing GNU
manuals appear to do what you want, this should not be an issue.

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