Re: GPL V3 and Linux - Dead Copyright Holders

[Paul Jakma <paul@clubi.ie>]

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> And btw, the GPL (the license text) is not incompatible with itself. Yes,
> the license says
>
> "Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
> of this license document, but changing it is not allowed."

Right, that's to discourage any hasty and likely ill-advised 'local' 
changes to the GPL. The FSF do grant permission to modify the GPL 
though:

	http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#ModifyGPL

regards,
--
Paul Jakma	paul@clubi.ie	paul@jakma.org	Key ID: 64A2FF6A
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