Messages in this thread | | | From | (david parsons) | Subject | Re: Article: IBM wants to "clean up the license" of Linux | Date | 30 Dec 1998 13:28:38 -0800 |
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In article <linux.kernel.19981230082452.A14213@craie.inetnebr.com>, Jeff Epler <jepler@inetnebr.com> wrote: >On Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 05:35:39PM -0500, C S Hendrix wrote: >> I didn't know you could custom-tailor the GPL to your uses. > >You can't. > > >| GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE >| Version 2, June 1991 >| >| Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. >| 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA >| Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies >| of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >So, I am not allowed to distribute my program with a license which changes >the first two lines to say "Jeff's Public License\\ Version 2, December >1998" and strikes the paragraph about using other version numbers.
If you do that, it's not the GPL any more, so what's the problem? If, instead, you struck the propaganda and the licensing terms you don't like but kept calling it the GPL, then that would be violating the copying terms. At least that's how I read it -- I don't like the GPL and the FSF at all, so it's possible that I'm maliciously misrepresenting the FSF and the GPL.
____ david parsons \bi/ Not even close to being a lawyer. \/
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