(Any chance you could use more believable name in your From field?) Zoot Zoot <zootzootzootz...@gmail.com> writes:
> The idea would not be to require them to inform the user that the > version is incomplete, but rather to have them state upfront that the > piece of the software that *we* contributed can be acquired free of > charge from our website. Copyright has a limited scope (though the trend in recent years is to massively increase this scope). The recipient only needs a license for actions reserved to the copyright holder. The license can discuss other actions, but the recipient is not bound to terms for those actions if copyright doesn't cover them. I think a description of a copy of a work for sale is outside the scope of copyright on the work. So you will probably have to use other remedies for that – such as the eBay feedback mechanism about the item or vendor. As for this work (the game “0 AD”), the GPL has a provision (§5.d) that, once the work is actually executed by someone, a copyright notice presented to the user must not be removed: 5. Conveying Modified Source Versions. […] d) If the work has interactive user interfaces, each must display Appropriate Legal Notices; however, if the Program has interactive interfaces that do not display Appropriate Legal Notices, your work need not make them do so. The term “Appropriate Legal Notices” is defined (§0): An interactive user interface displays "Appropriate Legal Notices" to the extent that it includes a convenient and prominently visible feature that (1) displays an appropriate copyright notice, and (2) tells the user that there is no warranty for the work (except to the extent that warranties are provided), that licensees may convey the work under this License, and how to view a copy of this License. If the interface presents a list of user commands or options, such as a menu, a prominent item in the list meets this criterion. So it seems you can add an Appropriate Legal Notice to the interactive user interface, as a way of making the provenance of the work properly discoverable by the recipient. -- \ “I'm beginning to think that life is just one long Yoko Ono | `\ album; no rhyme or reason, just a lot of incoherent shrieks and | _o__) then it's over.” —Ian Wolff | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87harh9pnb....@benfinney.id.au