On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 21:02:10 +0000 Dave Martin wrote: > > The authors would have no recourse then. If they had willingly licenced > their work under the GPL, they are permitting anyone to make commercial > use of their models / work providing that credit is not removed
Just for clarification, you have to be careful about that last bit.
The GPL allows this because you copyright your creation and you write
a copyright notice in your name. The GPL requires that all the copies
come with a copyright notice. However, things like "CREDITS" files
and so forth are not protected under the GPL; the GPL does not require
that credit not be removed, apart from protecting the copyright notice.
In fact, the GPL prevents such a restriction from being placed on a work
released under it. That fact was at the heart of the conflict over the
new XFree86 license; most Linux distributions have dumped XFree86 over
its subsequent incompatibility with the GPL.
-c
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