On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 01:08 +0300, Al Boldi wrote:
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> Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> > On Jun 17, 2007, Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com> wrote:
> > > Under what circumstances would it be possible to receive permission for
> > > modification?
> >
> > You have to ask the copyright holder.
> >
> > Affero did just that, and so the Affero GPL was born.
> >
> > Just don't assume the FSF will grant such permissions lightly.
> 
> But wouldn't this be against the spirit of the GPL?

This may be helpful to you :

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#ModifyGPL

It describes the scenario and how to go about doing it.

Best,
--Tim

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