Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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...
Thanks for the response -- I hadn't noticed that phrasing before. But if I give *you* a copy of Sniffmacs under the Sniffen GPL, wouldn't you then be bound only to give others the SGPL, not the GGPL with its Preamble? -Brian
