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Seems a bit odd. If someone is violating GPL then get in touch with the FSF (http://www.fsf.org/ http://www.fsf.org/) and talk enforcement with them. If someo
by shadowmint 14y ago
Seems a bit odd.
If someone is violating GPL then get in touch with the FSF (http://www.fsf.org/ http://www.fsf.org/) and talk enforcement with them.
If someone is forking your code and calling it something else, or selling it.... well, welcome to the GPL. You're allowed to do that. You need to read section 7, specifically:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt
c) Prohibiting misrepresentation of the origin of that
material, or requiring that modified versions of such
material be marked in reasonable ways as different from
the original version; or
That's an additional term you can place on your code, and NOT part of the default license.
- zbowling 14y agoIf someone is violating the GPL and the FSF owns the code then contact the FSF. The FSF doesn't care if someone is violating your code's GPL license. It's not their code so the don't have any right to enforce your license.
- tsahyt 14y agoForking, calling it something else and selling it is okay by the GPL. Using a different license isn't. A piece of code that's under the GPL must remain under the GPL unless the author (copyright holder that is) decides to change the license. At least that's how I understood it. So while you can fork it and sell it, you can't sell it under a different license, which is what those guys did.
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- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoPerhaps the Software Freedom Law Center (http://www.softwarefreedom.org/ http://www.softwarefreedom.org/) and gpl-violations.org (http://gpl-violations.org/ http://gpl-violations.org/) are the right ones to ask.