Question about GPL issue.

Kevin D. Clark kclark at mtghouse.com
Thu Apr 6 14:02:00 EDT 2006


"Steven W. Orr" writes:

> I am sure that I read something somewhere (though I could be wrong)
> where RMS said that he happily took other people's code and
> essentially changed the names of the variables and slapped a GPL at
> the beginning of the file.
>
> I would like to do the opposite. (I can't go into details, but please
> trust me when I say that there is no evil involved in this exercise.) 
> I want to take a small module (yes I know that size doesn't *really*
> count) and swing it out of GPL using the same technique.

Evil or not, you might want to pause to consider if this is *legal* or
not.

--kevin
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