* gerard robin -- Wednesday 21 January 2009: > I was told by a layer, since we are writing that the model is copyrighted > protected under Licence GPLV2 , we may write anything we want as addons > regarding the protection, these addons won't be taken in account , and one > may ignore it.
That probably depends on the jurisdiction of the respective country. The added "is not to be sold" does (or pretends to) explicitly express the will of the rights owner. That it isn't in the linked GPL document has no meaning. That it's not within the <license> tags, may be a different issue, but one has at least to assume that it's meant as a license restriction. And even if it's guaranteed that the addition isn't legally binding, it's then still misleading and against the spirit of the GPL and Free software. As such it has no place in our repository, no matter what. And if it's invalid, then why add it in the first place?! Finally, whoever added (not committed) the restriction should be aware that *if* s/he infringes on the GPL, s/he loses the right to use *any* GPL'ed software. m. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
