On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 05:39:28PM +0000, Sam Pablo Kuper wrote: > On 12/02/16 17:04, Blaise Alleyne wrote: > > > > I don't think copyright is an appropriate or effective tool for reaching the > > objectives you describe above. > > > > Trademark on the other hand, would be, i.e. if someone makes a "restricted > > modification", they should no longer be able to refer to it as the GNU GPL. > > (That's not restricting people's freedom to fork the license, but avoiding > > confusion if changes are made.) > > Blaise, I like your suggestion about trade marks perhaps being more > appropriate than copyright for establishing this kind of protection.
Trademarks only work when registered per-country; more important, they imply a product to be sold. the GNU GPL is not sold in any reasonable sense; in fact, the GNU project denies that (free) software should be treated like a product.
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