Derivative Works (was: Re: Fix the mg tutorial file)

[Daniel Roethlisberger <daniel@xxxxxx>]

Mayukh Bose <mayukh_bose@xxxxxxxxxxx> 2008-07-27:
> +This tutorial was written based on a similar tutorial written for GNU Emacs
> +by Richard M. Stallman.

IANAL, but I guess your rewritten tutorial is still a derivative work of
the original one.  The structure and much of the wording is still very
similar to the original.  I would think that the original copyrights
still apply; I don't think you can place this in the public domain
as-is.  You'd need to really rewrite it *from scratch*, neither re-using
the structure nor wording of the original one (that is, not using the
old one as a blueprint for the new one).  Please correct me if I am
wrong, but renaming variables and rewriting some functions will not
suffice to free (read: de-GPL) code either.

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