Get ready....

Derek J. Balling dredd at megacity.org
Thu Apr 15 03:27:19 UTC 1999


Actually, the license specifically forbids you from taking excerpts. It may
be copied verbatim or not at all.

At 08:16 PM 4/14/99 -0700, phred at teleport.com wrote:
>There are two things to say about the GPL:  it's a license, not code that
>performs some function on a computer.  And its terms do not forbid you
>from modifying it and making a different license.  In fact, that happens
>fairly often.  What you can't then do is call it the GPL.
>
>Fred Heutte
>Sunlight Data Systems
>Portland, Oregon
>
>"Why make it simple and easy
> When you can make it complex and wonderful!"
>
> -- crone at cua.edu, 1974





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