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From: Michael Bode <m.g.bode@web.de>
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Subject: Re: Corrected version Re: pragma License ?
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 21:02:38 +0200
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Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus.rm.tsoh@maps.futureapps.de> writes:

> Well, yes. "GM" stands for an exception applying to GPLed software.
> In this sense the "GM" part doesn _change_ the license
> text, though of course it does permit using of the software
> in programs that don't use a GPL compatible license.

And this is something the GPL wants to prevent.

> (The fact that GMGPL is just GPL with exception becomes noticeable
> when you start making changes to GMGPLed software: the exception
> applies to instance of the software as given to you, not as
> changed by you.)

I think it's an interesting question if the GMGPL is 'just GPL with
exeption' or a different license like e.g. LGPL.

There were statements from Adacore saying their license never changed
when in reality they changed it from GMGPL to GPL (for software from
the libre site). If GMGPL is 'just GPL with exception' then 'the
license never changed' is an interpretation that is compatible with
reality, otherwise it isn't.

-- 
No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law. 
He simply follows the eleventh commandment.
-- R.A. Heinlein