On Friday 07 December 2007 11:42:39 Heiko Schulz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On the forum someeone mentioned a maybe violation:
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130168333810&ssPageName=
>MERCOSI_VI_ROSI_PR4_PCN_BIX_Stores&refitem=300119449611&itemcount=4&refwidge
>tloc=closed_view_item&refwidgettype=osi_widget
>
> O.k. it is no danger for our project, but is this
> legal: Changing the name?
>
> Regards
> HHS
The name change is OK unless the FlightGear project has added an additional
restriction to the license to prevent this. Since I have not looked at the
FG license I don't know if this has happened.
Possibility a bigger issue is that the GPL license requires that anyone
distributing binary versions of the software that have been modified also
make the source code for the modified version available. If they do not make
the source code available then they have violated the license agreement and
are subject to legal action.
" 3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it,
under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of
Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable
source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections
1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three
years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your
cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete
machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be
distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium
customarily used for software interchange; or,
c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer
to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is
allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you
received the program in object code or executable form with such
an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)"
If the have modified the program they are also required to:
"2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion
of it, thus forming a work based on the Program, and copy and
distribute such modifications or work under the terms of Section 1
above, provided that you also meet all of these conditions:
a) You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices
stating that you changed the files and the date of any change.
b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in
whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any
part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third
parties under the terms of this License.
c) If the modified program normally reads commands interactively
when run, you must cause it, when started running for such
interactive use in the most ordinary way, to print or display an
announcement including an appropriate copyright notice and a
notice that there is no warranty (or else, saying that you provide
a warranty) and that users may redistribute the program under
these conditions, and telling the user how to view a copy of this
License. (Exception: if the Program itself is interactive but
does not normally print such an announcement, your work based on
the Program is not required to print an announcement.)"
The only way to find out if the license is being cmplided with is to purchase
a copy in one of these auctions and see if it meets these license
restrictions. If it does not then legal action is possible.
Hal
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