[Freepats] Re: De: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>

[Roberto Gordo Saez]

On 4/11/06, Marcos Guglielmetti Gmail <marcospcmusica at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, RMS told me this:
>
> "I would use this modified version of that exception."

I'm glad to see an opinion from Richard Stallman here. He is usually
busy, so I am thankful for his message. He proposes a slightly
modified exception. By comparing both I've notice he uses the word
"composition" instead of "document", substitutes "a" by "the", and
adds the words "as a whole".

Since I am not a native English speaker, I am probably not the best
person to analyze the meaning of changes; in my humble interpretation,
"as a whole" addition has an important effect: the individual samples
contained in a composition remain copyrighted and GPL, even when they
are mixed.

Mark, what do you think?

Notice that it can be difficult to change things by now. Even in case
Mark does agree with the modification, it can't be directly applied to
existing samples; they are copyrighted by their respective authors,
and it is needed their aproval to make any change to their given
license.