On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 12:33:13 -0600, "Robert Citek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > I'm trying to grok the GPL and was wondering if folks here might shed > some light on this hypothetical situation, or point me in the right > direction of where else to ask. > > Let's say I create this code called hello.world.sh: > > #!/bin/bash > # (c) 2005 - Robert Citek > # Licensed under the GPL ( http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html ) > echo "Hello, World" > > From what I understand, I am the owner of the code under copyright > law and I am granting others to copy, modify, use, and distribute my > code under the terms of the GPL license. Now, let's imagine someone > does modify my code and then distributes the new version. They call > their code hello.world.sh and it looks like this: > > #!/bin/bash > # (c) 2005 - John Doe > # Licensed under the GPL ( http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html ) > echo "Hello, World" > > Notice that the only change is the name next to the copyright > notice. Have they violated the GPL, after all they are free to > modify the code and they are providing it under the GPL, too? Have > they violated my copyright? Or is this acceptable and legal under > copyright and/or the GPL? IANAL: I believe there is nothing legally preventing you from doing this and it is permissable under the GPL; it is however considered extremely bad etiquette. > > BTW, I was thinking that http://www.gnu.org/ might be a better place > to ask this question, but I didn't see any forum for such > discussions. Again, pointers in the right direction gladly accepted. > > Regards, > - Robert > http://www.cwelug.org/downloads > Help others get OpenSource software. Distribute FLOSS > for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent > > > _______________________________________________ > CWE-LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.cwelug.org/ > http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ > http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/ -- Erich Friesen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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