Sujita Purushothaman scripsit: > I'd like to ask, when A writes a program and distributes it under the > GPL, and B modifies it : > 1. Is B allowed to remove all traces of A's name? Is B supposed to retain > A's name somewhere?
It is customary for the copyright notice to include the author's name (though it does not have to) and GPL forbids tampering with the copyright notice. > For example if I were to take RedHat Linux, make some > modifications, and distribute my own version, can I remove all instances of > "RedHat" ? This is a different question -- you not only can but you must. "Red Hat" is a trademark of Red Hat, and you have no right to use it. -- A mosquito cried out in his pain, John Cowan "A chemist has poisoned my brain!" http://www.ccil.org/~cowan The cause of his sorrow http://www.reutershealth.com Was para-dichloro- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Diphenyltrichloroethane. (aka DDT) -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
