On Wednesday 19 Jan 2005 21:21, Chris Metzler wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 21:02:10 +0000 > > Dave Martin wrote: > > The authors would have no recourse then. If they had willingly licenced > > their work under the GPL, they are permitting anyone to make commercial > > use of their models / work providing that credit is not removed > > Just for clarification, you have to be careful about that last bit. > The GPL allows this because you copyright your creation and you write > a copyright notice in your name. The GPL requires that all the copies > come with a copyright notice. However, things like "CREDITS" files > and so forth are not protected under the GPL; the GPL does not require > that credit not be removed, apart from protecting the copyright notice. > In fact, the GPL prevents such a restriction from being placed on a work > released under it. That fact was at the heart of the conflict over the > new XFree86 license; most Linux distributions have dumped XFree86 over > its subsequent incompatibility with the GPL. > > -c
I think I misworded that a bit. I was meaning the 'one liner' that is often added to the GPL copyright notice which includes the originating Author's name. > one line to give the program's name and an idea of what it does. > Copyright (C) yyyy name of author I was always under the impression that was the notice to remain intact? Cheers Dave Martin _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
