Re: proposed licence change for moodle
On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 07:03 am, John O Sullivan wrote:
I would welcome any comments on this, as would the <a
href="mailto:martin@dougiamas.com";>author</a>.
IANAL, but my comments follow...
I'd recommend that the author carefully considers section 2 of the GPL.
If the moodle logo etc. is hardwired into the sources, then
modification will be required
to remove it, which may only be made under the terms of this section.
The modified
program will fall under the scope of 2c, which requires "an appropriate
copyright notice"
and notice that there is no warranty.
An appropriate copyright notice would certainly include his copyright,
and potentially
more detail. Perhaps a "clarification" as to what constitutes
"appropriate" could be added
in the same manner that the "linking exception" clauses may be... it
could perhaps be
specified to include the Moodle name at least?
Any FSF licensing gurus listening?
Cheers,
Nick
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