[Openvas-devel] openvas-server/README_SSL to be removed ?

[Jan-Oliver Wagner]

Hi Robert,

On Thursday 24 May 2007 17:57, Robert Berkowitz wrote:
> Why would not being able to modify a text file preclude it from being
> included in a Free Software package?
>
> You are expressly allowed to redistribute the file anyway you like.
> You are just not allowed to make modifications to it. Is it the GPL
> that is preventing it from being included (perhaps in the strictest
> sense of the GPL this is true?).

the GPL itself is strict. The package could however explain that
some files of it are not subject to GPL. But don't regard
this a good idea. It creates only confusion.

Best

	Jan
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