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Article #72156Re: GNU GPL for documents, too?
From: Barry Margolin
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1992 22:12
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1992 22:12
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In article <GUMBY.92Mar20054947@Cygnus.COM> gumby@Cygnus.COM (David V. Wallace) writes:
> Date: 16 Mar 92 12:07:58 GMT
> From: neuhaus@vier.informatik.uni-kl.de (Stephan Neuhaus (HiWi Mattern))
>
> The Question: May I modify the GPL to suit my needs?
>
>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.
But if he were to write his own license by modifying the GPL, wouldn't it
be a derivative work of the GPL, and hence convered by its restriction
against copying with modifications? And unless the FSF has trademarked
"GNU General Public License", what is there preventing him from using that
name (I suppose he could get into trouble if he tried to use his version of
the license to defraud someone)?
--
Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
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