On 23/01/2008, Alex Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 02:02 +0000, Dave Crossland wrote: > > Okay, you are persuading me that the Liberation family is > > redistributable verbatim. > > > > But if I download it from Red Hat, and the modify it and remove all > > Red Hat trademarks (apart from in copyright notices) what terms do I > > redistribute my modified version under? > > You'd have to redistribute under the same terms as the original license, > because it's copyleft: that is, GPL+bits. > > If you licensed your changes as pure GPL, that obviously wouldn't be > compatible with the original license and that *would* mean that your > modified version becomes basically undistributable. So, you'd have to be > careful about that aspect of it, which I would agree is confusing.
Okay, I'm with MJ on this, sorry :-) If I release software with a license in LICENSE.txt and a TERMS.txt that says "You can only use this on Mondays" - it is not free software, and you can receive it from me under those terms because I'm the original licenor, but you can't redistribute it. I think the point of the GPL is that you can't make additional terms that are restrictive. I'll contact Red Hat about this again though. Thanks, -- Regards, Dave _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
