On Mon, 1 May 2006 15:19:08 +0200 Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 07:41:28PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: > > On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 01:55:55 +0200 Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > > > > Do I need to get the copyright holder of the documents to > > > relicense it under the GPL? It seems clear to me that it > > > already is covered by the GPL, but it shouldn't be a > > > problem to get the copyright holder to explicitly state > > > that. > > > > Yes, please do. > > A clarification would be highly useful, IMHO. > > I'm not sure, but I think if they say that the rfc is covered by > the gpl, that it might need to have some exception saying that > the name needs to be changed, which also seems to be compliant > with DFSG #4. Does the GPL allow such exceptions?
No, a name-change clause can comply with DFSG#4 (depending on how it is
phrased), but is incompatible with the GNU GPL v2.
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