Re: [Fsfe-uk] Re: Freedom to take freedom

[Alex Hudson]

On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 02:02 +0000, Dave Crossland wrote:
> 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?

You'd have to redistribute under the same terms as the original license,
because it's copyleft: that is, GPL+bits.

If you licensed your changes as pure GPL, that obviously wouldn't be
compatible with the original license and that *would* mean that your
modified version becomes basically undistributable. So, you'd have to be
careful about that aspect of it, which I would agree is confusing.

Cheers,

Alex.