> 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.
Huh? I am not a lawyer either but I know that Mr. Citek's hypothetical situation suggests a copyright violation- no different from erasing the publisher's copyright from a book and writing "(c) 2005 Mr. Sparkle". It's a lie. The GPL builds on copyright- it doesn't replace it... Note that many "open source" projects rely on this behavior to offer commercial licensing; for example, MySQL AB (the company) owns the copyright and can thus distribute the software with whatever license they like, regardless of the GPL. If just anyone could swipe the copyright, then anyone could change the license. Note that copyright is term-limited (whatever that term may be today thanks to Sonny Bono). |-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|- AgentM [EMAIL PROTECTED] |-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|- _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
