On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 11:28:08AM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: > Sunnanvind Briling Fenderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > There's been several instances of "GPL-ripoffs", e.g. people basing > > their own licenses on the GNU GPL, or was I dreaming that? > > I've never seen a licence that includes a large part of the GPL that > wasn't the entire unmodified GPL. Copying ideas or short extracts of > text is not forbidden by copyright law.
I have. Try the "Choral Public Domain License" (http://cpdl.snaptel.com/license.htm), which is essentially the GPL with "software" replaced by "music". Was constructing that licence a copyright infringement? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
