Re: denying rights?

[Bernd Jendrissek]

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In article <85u07xbkyt.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
wrote:
>Basically, this is not the GPL, but a different license using the same
>words in large parts.  Maybe the FSF could demand that they call their
>license something else (but I don't know whether GPL is registered as a
>trademark), but that's about it.

The text of the GPL forbids modification, doesn't it?  Such a "GPL
except for X and Y" would be a derivative work, wouldn't it?  Does that
mean that this project is in violation of the terms of distribution of
the GPL text?

> Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>     51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
> Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
> of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
[snip]

/me isn't sure what exactly "changing it" means...

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