"john skofot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is this in violation of the gpl?
No, IMHO it's one of the typical uses of the freedoms the GPL explicitly grants. > Is he allowed to remove chapters and misleadingly change the title? If he has changed the document to contain more up-to-date information, wouldn't it be misleading to *keep* the title? > All without and against my concensus. That's not very friendly, but friendliness is not required by the GPL. It's also how life is - most forks start with being not friendly, and many finally-not-forks which get reintegrated start that way, too. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)