On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 06:12:55PM +0200, Jan Wildeboer wrote:
Bernhard Reiter wrote:
Note 2: In my eyes Software on which a patent exists does indeed take away the second freedom to study how the program works. What is studying worth if you cannot use your learned knowledge (ideas not the code) to implement something similiar and use it to earn money.
That sounds more like not being allowed to "help your neighbour". I can study the source, I can modfiy it, I can publish my changes but I am bound to a defined set of licenses.
If you modify the sources you are bound by the license already. The GNU GPL will not permit you to publish this under a different license then anyway.