[Trisquel-users] Re : Ubuntu Fonts License
What is the point of distributing an unmodified software after changing its name? You would only lose the fame associated with the software, i.e., people will not recognize it, hence not use it. The problem normally is the opposite: people using a name with a certain fame to make the customers believe the counterfeited product is the "real" thing. That is the issue trademarks address. Anyway, as a purely theoretical question (I do not believe there are developers who want their free software to not be recognizable after redistribution), I believe the work would remain free software: the user can still enjoys the four freedoms. Renaming the application is not a significant constraint. But maybe you mean changing the name of the software for something that makes users believe it comes from the redistributor. Like a "Microsoft Emacs" that would just be "GNU Emacs". The copyright law prevents that: you cannot deny the "paternity" of the work.
[Trisquel-users] Re : Ubuntu Fonts License
Oh! Then, "there are developers who want their free software to not be recognizable after redistribution"! :-) But, yes, I believe this clause does not make the license non-free. That said I am not a lawyer and I have not read the rest of the license.
[Trisquel-users] Re : Ubuntu Fonts License
Even not enabling the restricted and the multiverse repositories, there are many Ubuntu packages that will be available from the package manager and yet violate the free software guidelines. Here is a list that dates back to Ubuntu 10.04 (there probably are new one): aee afio app-install-data-commercial app-install-data-partner app-install-data-ubuntu b43-fwcutter capiutils chromium-browser chromium-browser-dbg chromium-browser-inspector chromium-browser-l10n chromium-codecs-ffmpeg chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-dbg chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra-dbg chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-nonfree chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-nonfree-dbg d4x-common envyng-core envyng-gtk envyng-qt fglrx-modaliases firefox-3.5-branding firefox-branding freesci freesci-doc gstreamer0.10-pitfdll helix-player ipppd isdnactivecards isdneurofile isdnlog isdnlog-data isdnutils isdnutils-base isdnutils-doc isdnutils-xtools isdnvbox isdnvboxclient isdnvboxserver ivman jockey jockey-common jockey-gtk jockey-kde libmoon libmoonlight-desktop2.0-cil-dev libmoonlight-gtk3.0-cil libmoonlight-system-windows-controls2.0-cil libmoonlight-system-windows3.0-cil libmoonlight-windows-desktop3.0-cil libubuntuone libubuntuone-1.0-1 libubuntuone-dev libubuntuone1.0-cil libubuntuone1.0-cil-dev monodoc-moonlight-manual moon moonlight-plugin-core moonlight-plugin-mozilla moonlight-tools moonlight-web-devel mozilla-helix-player ndisgtk ndiswrapper ndiswrapper-common ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 nvidia-173-modaliases nvidia-180-modaliases nvidia-185-modaliases nvidia-96-modaliases nvidia-common nvidia-current-modaliases nvidia-settings ophcrack ophcrack-cli pdftk pppdcapiplugin rman scribus-ng-doc scsi-firmware linux-firmware software-center tatan ubufox ubuntuone-client ubuntuone-client-gnome ubuntuone-client-tools ubuntuone-storage-protocol user-mode-linux vrms Firefox proprietary add-ons are proposed too. And that is not mentioning other types of problem such as the fact that Ubuntu now is a spyware.
