Brian T. Sniffen wrote: >OK. I have a copy of Emacs here, licensed to me under the GNU GPL2. >I have made some modifications to it, and updated the changelogs and >history notes. I wish to give it to a friend. Section 2b requires >that I distribute my new program, Sniffmacs, "under the terms of this >License," GPL2. Can I give my friend Sniffmacs, together with the >"Terms and Conditions" section of the GPL, retitled as "Sniffen GPL"? > >As far as I can tell, this meets the requirements for creating a new >license based on the GPL, and meets the requirements for distributing >GPL'd software.
Keith Dunwoody wrote: >I believe the answer is no. The appropriate part of the GPL is section 2b. Keith is wrong; the appropriate part is actually section 1. "...and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License along with the Program." In this context, "this License" means the unmodified text of the GNU GPL, presumably including the preamble; there really isn't any other interpretation. So you can distrbitute Sniffmacs under the Sniffen GPL, but you have to distribute a copy of the original GNU GPL with it, kind of defeating the purpose...
