Let's say that I make a fork of Flight Gear by creating a new project "My Flight Simulator" under SourceForge, that I make a mirror copy of the Flight Gear CVS tree under my project and that the only commit I do is to change the name of the program.
Then I release everything under the GPL. After a while (100 sessions) my (rare?) users will be surprised to see that "My Flight Simulator" is an "Invalid version" of Flight Gear which is obviously an illegal statement since : 1. My copy is perfectly compliant with the GPL 2. This statement is deliberately misleading which is illegal anyway in most countries. Hence Nicolas' statement. Cheers, Bertrand. 2009/10/24 Martin Spott <martin.sp...@mgras.net>: > Nicolas Quijano wrote: > >> I'm flabbergasted : disregarding the GPL to protect the GPL ? > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Ah ? Please specify, > > Martin. > -- > Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA > is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your > developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay > ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
