If memory serves, you cannot change the GPL and still call it the GPL as the License itself is copyrighted. However the rest of Paul's post is completely dead on.<br><br> Seablade<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 10/17/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Paul Davis</b> <<a href="mailto:paul@linuxaudiosystems.com">paul@linuxaudiosystems.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 11:42 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:<br><br>> Yep, the question keeps popping up in the lists, long threads ensue, and<br>> inevitably somebody says it is ok to to it.<br><br>its OK for the copyright holders to do whatever they want. they can copy
<br>the GPL, edit it anyway they want, and use the result as their license.<br>there might or might not be issues with calling it "GPL" or with using<br>the actual text of the GPL, but ... the clause in the GPL restricts what
<br>you, a licensee, may do with the licensed material (i.e. you may not<br>distribute it under a more restrictive license). it does not, and<br>cannot, restrict what the copyright holder (i.e. licensor) for the<br>licensed material can do with the material in question.
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