<div dir="auto">This came up with the SSPL. From the FSF:<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">"You can legally use the GPL terms (possibly modified) in another license provided that you call your license by another name and do not include the GPL preamble, and provided you modify the instructions-for-use at the end enough to make it clearly different in wording and not mention GNU (though the actual procedure you describe may be similar)."<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">While this license appears to be a non-free parody international socialism, it doesn't violate the FSF's copyright.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Brendan</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jun 28, 2019, 06:35 John Cowan <<a href="mailto:cowan@ccil.org">cowan@ccil.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 6:01 AM Lukas Atkinson <<a href="mailto:opensource@lukasatkinson.de" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">opensource@lukasatkinson.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>You are clearly not trying to create an open source license because the license discriminates against certain persons: against those who you do not deem “working class”. Compare OSD #5 specifically, and the Free Software Definition more generally.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Not only that, but the Working Class License itself is a blatant violation of the FSF's copyright, unless the author has a private license from the FSF to create such a thing (which I do not believe, as it fails to acknowledge the FSF in any way). As the GPL says right at the top: "Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed."</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>John Cowan <a href="http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan</a> <a href="mailto:cowan@ccil.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">cowan@ccil.org</a><br>The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own<br>skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among<br>other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague. --Edsger Dijkstra<br></div><div><br></div></div></div>
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