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Re: logos and GPL (was Re: [DotGNU]DotGNU Posters project)
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Norbert Bollow |
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Re: logos and GPL (was Re: [DotGNU]DotGNU Posters project) |
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Sat, 11 Jan 2003 15:48:30 +0100 (CET) |
Rhys Weatherley <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Speaking of which, we can't very well include a copy of the GPL with
> > each of these posters, can we? So what is the resolution for this
> > problem?
>
> A small footnote saying that the logo is GPL and pointing people to
> the FSF's Web site should fix this.
No that's not good enough. In section 1 of the GPL there's an
explicit requirement to "give any other recipients of the Program a
copy of this License along with the Program."
> There are plenty of cases of software being distributed without a
> complete copy of the GPL - binary rpm's for example.
Most of the binary RPMs which I'm using came on a CD which has GPL in
a file named COPYING. I also downloaded quite a few from an ftp server
which also has the GPL in a similarly-named file.
However, distributing RPMs of GPL'd software without distributing a
copy of the GPL along with it would be a license violation.
Note that for binary rpm's there is an additional requirement that
you must either also distribute source code with the binary, or a
written promise to distribute source code upon request.
BTW violations of these terms are considered a serious matter by the
FSF and probably also by many other copyright holders of GPL'd
software.
Greetings, Norbert.
--
Founder & Steering Committee member of http://gnu.org/projects/dotgnu/
Norbert Bollow, Weidlistr.18, CH-8624 Gruet (near Zurich, Switzerland)
Tel +41 1 972 20 59 Fax +41 1 972 20 69 http://norbert.ch
Re: [DotGNU]DotGNU Posters project, Ian Fung, 2003/01/08
[DotGNU]Re: DotGNU Posters project, Richard Stallman, 2003/01/09