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List:       kde-licensing
Subject:    Re: KDE not in Debian?
From:       Raul Miller <moth () debian ! org>
Date:       2000-01-31 23:12:15
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On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 02:22:58PM -0500, Andreas Pour wrote:
> Adding terms is changing the license.

Depending on context, this may be completely legal -- or not.

> Otherwise I can add a provision to the GPL which says,
> "Notwithstanding anything in this License to the contrary, if the
> distributor is [XXXXX] then Section 6 does not apply".

You'd be laughed out of court if you tried to assert this as
a legal claim.

The context where adding clauses is legal is a context where those
clauses don't try to establish rights which were not allowed in the
original license.

-- 
Raul

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