Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
Alessandro and I described scenarios with outcomes that follow from what the FDL clauses allow (1) and those outcomes we consider harmful (2).
(1) was derived by logical conclusion. Your only refutation to them that I can see, that the FSF could *require* copyright assignments (rather than ask for them), has been disproven.
The FSF _requires_ copyright assignments for works to be incoperated into a GNU project (not all, but most). If it cannot get a copyright assignment for a change, the change isn't incoperated.
Never mind that Alessandro's and my examples specifically involved the change *not* being incorporated into the original project. Just keep repeating your phrases without looking at the context.
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Let's say I write a shoot-em-up game, where you're shooting aliens (similar to, say, Doom). I release that under GPL.
Now, someone else comes along and changes the game (which they're perfectly entitled to do under GPL, obviously). Instead of shooting at aliens, you're now shooting Shia Muslims, as an example.
They had to add new material to do this, i.e. change the pictures of the monsters into Shia Muslims. So it isn't as simple as `modification'.
OK, so changing is not modification, I see. Please go on ...
Frank