Re: Re: GPLv2 or GPLv2+

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <[email protected]> Mon, 19 Nov 2007 02:35:25 +0900
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.arch.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Alfred M. Szmidt writes:

 >     > You can create the Stephen J. Turnbull General Public License
 >     > that only contains the legal parts that just happens to have the
 >     > exact same terms as the GNU GPL.
 > 
 >    That is explicitly not permitted.
 > 
 > I never wrote `modify the GNU GPL', I wrote `the exact same terms'.

That's right, you didn't write "modify".  However, under the law what
you describe would be considered modification.

Is it possible that you do not understand that?