2005/9/30, Renegade Penguin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > You obviously do not understand trademarks OR. copyright. Here's an > example: > > Go put Microsoft "artwork" as you call it onto OpenSUSE. Watch how fast > MS would sue for trademark infringement as well as copyright infringement.
Show me a package made it by Microsoft and with a GPLd licence and maybe i will. Trademarks can exist just as well as copyrights. > > Further, Novell can copyright AND trademark artwork. Copyright exists > at creation of artwork, and does not become immediately GPL'd just > because you release most software under the GPL. > > Last paragraph in section 2: > "In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the Program > with the Program (or with a work based on the Program) on a volume of a > storage or distribution medium does not bring the other work under the > scope of this License." "on a volume of a storage or distribution medium" Again I'm not speaking about the logos on the CD and outside the rpm package, I'm speaking about the ones inside the gpl package made it by Novell/SUSE and I don't pretend to freely use the logos inside i going to used just installing the rpm, not calling the entire product SUSE o Novell. In other words, I'm going to use the package exactly in the way the licence indicate. And you miss this part: "*0.* This License applies to any program or other work which contains a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed under the terms of this General Public License." In this case the art work ( because it doesn't have the (t) sign ) is inside the package, which is marked like GPL by Novell/Suse. So where exactly says that i can't use the entire package and only portions of it ?? My friend if you were right suse, novell and every body will need to ask permition to every gpld software maker because it have a logo and a brand name inside. -- Marcel Mourguiart
