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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: GPLv2 or GPLv2+


From: Stephen J. Turnbull
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: GPLv2 or GPLv2+
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:33:48 +0900

Alfred M. Szmidt writes:
 >     >     > You can create the Stephen J. Turnbull General Public
 >     >     > License that only contains the legal parts that just
 >     >     > happens to have the exact same terms as the GNU GPL.
 >     > 
 >     >    That is explicitly not permitted.
 >     > 
 >     > I never wrote `modify the GNU GPL', I wrote `the exact same
 >     > terms'.
 > 
 >    That's right, you didn't write "modify".  However, under the law
 >    what you describe would be considered modification.
 > 
 > No, it would not, ideas cannot be copyrighted.

OK.  Show us how to do it.  For bonus points, get it certified as a
Free Software license by the FSF.





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