Lars wrote: >I prefer Frank's proposal of 2002/06/30 to his original, but the wording in > > If you are not the Current Maintainer of The Program you are only allowed to > distribute a modified file of The Program if, and only if, the > following eight conditions are met: > >seems to contain an `only' too much. fear you are right :-) >Concerning the matter of stating intent, perhaps something like the >following could be included in the preamble? possibly. some suggested addiotions/changes below > The purpose of this License is to grant The User the right to > freely obtain, use, and make derivative works based on The Program, > whilst at the same time preserving the integrety of The Program. ... integrety of The Program under its original name. > This means that derivative works created by modifying The Program > (or any part thereof) must not give the appearance of being part > of The Program. perhaps the above sentence is actually not necessary > The right to modify The Program for the purpose of ... to modify The Program under its original name for the purpose of ... > creating a new version of The Program lies solely with the Current > Maintainer of The Program. frank