Question about GPL issue.

[Jeff Kinz]

On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 01:44:43PM -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> I do pretty well here, so I thought I'd go to the well one more time.
> 
> 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. Can anyone point me to 
> where RMS said this? I do remember that it was a long time ago, maybe 10 
> years or so.

Doing that is certainly a violation of copyright even though you
probably would never get caught.  

To stay spiritually clean, :-) you could look in the BSD source trees
for a module that does the same thing.  Then you can do anything you want
with it as long as you keep the notice in the comments.


-- 
Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA.
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