On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Kevin Forge wrote:

> If it means to allow all the things the GPL allows then this License 
> dose that.  The only additional requirement is that you must make it
> known whether you make changes or not.  I can't see this as a problem
> under any kind of sercumstances.  I.e. If I took the Linux kernel and
> made some changes then distributed it as "The Linux Kernel" in such
> a way that people believe it's from Linus, That is a major problem 
> ( Think Trojan Horse or Experimental patches to a "stable" kernel ).
> Even Alan calls his version "*ac-xx".

If you look carefully in the GPL, it requires that you mark your version 
as modified from the original.

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