summary of firstboot and EULA changes in Fedora 7
Peter Jones
pjones at redhat.com
Thu May 17 21:06:14 UTC 2007
Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On May 17, 2007, Max Spevack <mspevack at redhat.com> wrote:
>> or modifying this code.
>
> Not quite. Even the most liberal Free Software licenses establish a
> few restrictions on modifications you can make, such as not granting
> permission to remove or modify the license and the copyright notices.
> In particular, the GPLv2 itself does, so this statement is
> inconsistent with the license in the paragraph before it.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the GPL (and I think all the other common
cases) puts a restriction on distribution, not on modification. You can
take the copyright notices out all you like as long as you never pass
the code along.
--
Peter
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