On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 12:44:56AM +0200, Sunnanvind Briling Fenderson wrote: > A copyright license is a copyrightable work.
Pleasse supply a reference backing up this assertion, please. > > Anyone is free to take the text of the GPL and modify it for their > > own use -- in contexts where they own the copyright. > > The GPL says: > > "Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. <snip adress> > Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this > license document, but changing it is not allowed." > > Ask the FSF legal team if you doubt me (and if I'm wrong, please let > me know). If it said that modifications were allowed, that could be construed to mean that you could modify the license on a GPLed work to something other than the GPL. -- Raul
