On 16:21 16/04/04, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
Anyway, Peter Gerwinski (who originally wrote the above paragraph) suggests the following clarification:
[...] If you choose to release it, it must be under the GNU GPL.
For excessive clarification, add this:
"... (Your modifications, if they can stand on their own as a separate entity, may be released any way you like, but the combination of them with GPC may only be released under the terms of the GNU GPL.)"
``Separate entity'' is rather vague; do you mean that it can run standalone, or do you mean that it does not contain code from any GPL-covered software? Both have to be true before you can consider releasing it under any license other than GPL.
``But the combination of them with GPC'' is also vague. If you mean combination as `distributing with GPC', then it does not have to be under the GPL (or any other free/open source license), provided the two questions in the above paragraph hold true.