Right to distribute modifications?

[John Cowan]

Bjorn Reese scripsit:

> The license grants rights to "use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
> distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies". According to my
> understanding this includes the right to distribute modifications,
> as you've got the right to both modify and distribute.

AFAIK the free software community has always understood the right
to distribute modifications to be implied by this license, but
of course (as usual) no court has spoken, and so nobody can say
for sure.  RMS is being cautious, that's all.

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