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Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 21:09:46 -0500
To: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com>,
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From: "G. Adam Stanislav" <redprince@redprince.net>
Subject: RE: RE: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already?
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At 15:57 15-05-2000 -0700, David Schwartz wrote:
>	The GPL is someone's intellectual property. If you wish to use it, you must
>use it according to the terms by which it was licensed to you. If you don't
>have permission to use the GPL with such modifications, you are not
>permitted to do so.

Indeed, he expressly prohibits such modifications:

> 
>                     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.
>               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

It is an all or nothing proposition. You either go with GPL all the way, or
you don't use it at all.

Adam
 
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