On 22/01/2008, Alex Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 20:29 +0000, Dave Crossland wrote: > > On 22/01/2008, Alex Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The license in this case is GPL + extra bits. The text of the license > > > says licensees may not add extra restrictions. But I still have to pass > > > it on under the license I received it - GPL + bits - because without > > > standing in copyright, or the right to sub-license, I can't change the > > > license on the work. > > > > The text of the license says licensees may not add extra restrictions > > other than those in the license, and if there are other restrictions > > of any kind (typically patent ones) then you can't distribute the work > > at all. > > > > That means, you can't redistribute the red hat fonts to me. But I can > > get them from Red Hat myself, and change them privately, whereas I > > can't change the Microsoft ones privately and why I initially > > recommend doing so to someone :-) > > I don't know where your second paragraph comes from - I'm perfectly > entitled to distribute the Red Hat fonts to you. You don't get the > license from me; you get it from Red Hat - it's clear on that (to me, at > least, sec.6 - GPLv3 is even more explicit on this point, no > sublicenses). > > The GPL doesn't require or use a sublicense, you don't receive a license > from the person who gave you the software - you get it from the > copyright holder. Given they are the licensors, it doesn't matter what > restrictions they append to the license in terms of internal > consistency; the license text is silent on the matter as far as I can > see.
Okay, you are persuading me that the Liberation family is redistributable verbatim. But if I download it from Red Hat, and the modify it and remove all Red Hat trademarks (apart from in copyright notices) what terms do I redistribute my modified version under? -- Regards, Dave _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list Fsfe-uk@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
