Re: Possible GPL violation
You are allowed to modify works licensed under the GPL. You are not allowed to modify the GPL itself. On Tue, Jun 20, 2023, 21:27 Joshua Allen wrote: > In the debian manual, it says > > "This manual is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it > under > the terms of the GNU General Public License. Please refer to the license in > Appendix F, GNU General Public License." > > It then includes verbatim the license which says > > "Appendix F. GNU General Public License > > Version 2, June 1991 > > Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. > > Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies > of this license document, but changing it is not allowed." > > Since the GPL cannot be changed or modified, henceforth there is a > contradiction that goes against the GPL by including the very wording of > the form license. > > Because of this, the debian should consider removing the form license. > Or relicense the manual under the GFDL and putting Appendix F under an > invariant section, which I doubt since Debian doesnt consider the GFDL > with invariant clauses to be free documentation. > >
Re: Possible GPL violation (Panda Security)
Just wanted to let everyone know that Panda finally fixed the issue. Link: http://acs.pandasoftware.com/resources/sop/SafeCD/index.htm Michael Shepard. On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 2:37 AM, Michael Shepard joelises...@gmail.com wrote: I have contacted Panda Security about a GPL violation with their Rescue CD technology. Previously it utilized ISOLINUX and an ncurses program. Recently they switched to using Debian, so that they could provide a user-friendly interface to their customers. The only problem is that they do not provide the source code for Debian. I have searched their website with no success. Looks like they are using lenny Debian Live, interesting. I have contacted them about this issue, indicating that it opens them up to lawsuits (since this usually gets people's attention). I have not received a response. I thought it would be better for someone more closely related to the project to get in contact with these people. I would suggest that you contact the copyright holders of the software distributed on their CD image. That includes Linux folk, the FSF and so on, see /live/packages.txt in the iso for a list of packages installed in the squashfs image. Also, gpl-violations.org is a better group of people for initial contact about GPL violations, debian-legal is just a discussion list. For the benefit of the other people on this list, the CD is available here: http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/support/card?id=80152idIdioma=2 http://www.pandasecurity.com/resources/sop/SafeCD/PandaSafeCD.iso http://www.techmixer.com/panda-rescue-cd/ http://www.pandasecurity.com/resources/tools/SafeCD.iso -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktimaozazhawpktklc1eczkxt+dwk94dudjy9t...@mail.gmail.com
Re: Possible GPL violation (Panda Security)
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 2:37 AM, Michael Shepard joelises...@gmail.com wrote: I have contacted Panda Security about a GPL violation with their Rescue CD technology. Previously it utilized ISOLINUX and an ncurses program. Recently they switched to using Debian, so that they could provide a user-friendly interface to their customers. The only problem is that they do not provide the source code for Debian. I have searched their website with no success. Looks like they are using lenny Debian Live, interesting. I have contacted them about this issue, indicating that it opens them up to lawsuits (since this usually gets people's attention). I have not received a response. I thought it would be better for someone more closely related to the project to get in contact with these people. I would suggest that you contact the copyright holders of the software distributed on their CD image. That includes Linux folk, the FSF and so on, see /live/packages.txt in the iso for a list of packages installed in the squashfs image. Also, gpl-violations.org is a better group of people for initial contact about GPL violations, debian-legal is just a discussion list. For the benefit of the other people on this list, the CD is available here: http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/support/card?id=80152idIdioma=2 http://www.pandasecurity.com/resources/sop/SafeCD/PandaSafeCD.iso http://www.techmixer.com/panda-rescue-cd/ http://www.pandasecurity.com/resources/tools/SafeCD.iso -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktimaozazhawpktklc1eczkxt+dwk94dudjy9t...@mail.gmail.com
