Definitely a tough issue... Particularly because we also have to weigh into consideration the spirit of the GPL, about freedom for users to give away the software.
It reminds me of the Ice Weasel thing. Don't think we can deny them the right to distribute Mixxx under the GPL, I think we could ask them not to use our trademark in conjunction with the brand of their cigarettes. Personally, if they want to give away Mixxx on a CD I'm fine with that as long as the Mixxx name/logo doesn't appear in the same place as the cigarette brand (and they don't put the cigarette branding into Mixxx - no splash, skin or about box) and they include the source code to Mixxx with the binary on the CD so they comply with the GPL. /2cents -G On 27/03/2009, Adam Davison <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I just got an e-mail from someone asking whether we would be willing > to have Mixxx bundled on a cd for a promotion. These people are an > agency who would design a custom skin and choose some tracks for their > customer, which is a German cigarette company. > > Now normally I just say yeah go ahead to these people. But I'm not > sure I personally am overly keen on Mixxx being used to promote > cigarettes... but I don't know. > > What are people's views on this? > > Adam > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Mixxx-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel > -- __ --- == __/ t.O ==-- http://stacktrace.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Mixxx-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel
