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Hello.

First of all, I would like to thank the FSF for the many good tools it
has produced.  I hope you keep up the excellent work.

Now, my problem:

I have written some TeX documents that I wanted to release publicly. I
wanted to make sure that everyone knew how to get the machine-readable
``source code'' so that readers could produce and modify the files. I
intended to create a modified version of the GPL for this (my suggested
title was General Public Document License), but as I reread the typical
GNU COPYING file, I found this:

    Everyone is permitted to copy and distrinute verbatim copies
    of this license document, but changing is not allowed.

Since I won't be using the license to change GNU copyright conditions
for software, but rather to create a similar set of rights for my
machine-readable documents, am I still forbidden to change the GPL to
fit my needs?  (I will have to change it, even if it is only to replace
`program' and `software' by `document'.)

Please answer by email, because I don't read this newsgroup very often. 
I apologize if this is a FAQ, but I didn't see such a list here.

Thanks, and enjoy,


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