Bertrand Coconnier wrote:
> 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
Your problem, since you're the one who distributes this piece of
software.
> 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.
Are you just about trying to add new features to the GPL ? Simply read
the license text.
"[...]
TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
[...]
Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not
covered by this License; they are outside its scope."
I'm unable to find any section in the GPL that writing out 'misleading'
statements is a violation of the license, neither that deliberately
distributing misleading statements is illegal - politicians,
lobbyists, <choose yout favourite> ar doing this every day.
Don't get me wrong: I would not state that I really "like" Durk's move
- in fact I personally didn't get to any final conclusion yet. I just
think it's "acceptable" and, to be honest, I find it highly amusing how
people are trying to attack Durk's move whithout having any substantive
arguments at their hand ....
Cheers,
Martin.
--
Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are !
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