On Mon, Jan 9, 2012, at 07:41 PM, Felyza Wishbringer wrote: > My biggest concern is that since it allows for small modifications, > what would protect us, as the original authors, from someone taking > our source, modifying a single line, then re-releasing under a > modified GPLv3 that says that inclusion must state in documentation > they had a part in the work.
I presume you're referring to provision 7b which requires the *preservation* of specified legal notices or author attributions? I suppose someone could take a GPLv3 licensed copy of your work, modify the source code so that it displays an attribution to themselves in the Legal Notices and then release their changes under the GPLv3 together with a clause under 7b so works derived from theirs couldn't remove the attribution. They could even attempt sell their copy for a few hundred thousand dollars! However, this change wouldn't affect your version, nor anyone who is using your distribution. My guess is that there one-line change would have to be pretty significant for someone to want to use their version over yours. In particular, nothing they would do might force you to add an attribution in your documentation. I can't imagine anyone every doing something like this. IANAL, TINLA Best, Clark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
