Modification

FunnelWeb is distributed under a GNU license, and you are free to modify the source code and distribute modified copies (see Section 5.6). However, there are good reasons why you should avoid doing this.

1. If you distribute modified versions of FunnelWeb, you run the risk of creating a version that will diverge from the ``official'' version of FunnelWeb that I intend to maintain.

2. If you release a version of FunnelWeb with a changed input language, users of your modified version will create source files that will no longer work on other versions of FunnelWeb. The result would be chaos.

For these reasons I request that you do not distribute modified versions of FunnelWeb, particularly versions with a modified language. However, if you must distribute a version with a modified language, please change its name (i.e. from ``FunnelWeb'' to something else). Please also allocate a new file extension to replace ``.fw'' as the extension for source files written in the modified language.

For more information, refer to the FunnelWeb Hacker's Manual.