Question about GPL issue.

[Jeffrey Creem]

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.
>
Whether he said it or not is not really relevant. This would be a pretty 
clear violation of copyright law both before and after the DCMA.

See http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-fairuse.html#howmuch as a good 
jumping off point.