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Does an author need to grant permission for anyone to distribute his/her GPL'ed source?
by colinbartlett 11y ago
Does an author need to grant permission for anyone to distribute his/her GPL'ed source?
- cowsandmilk 11y agoThey cannot file a DMCA because there are no copyright issues. This is why popular open source projects should seek trademark protection on their names. Sure, people get angry about Mozilla's protection of the Firefox trademark, but this demonstrates that there are legitimate reasons to trademark a name so you can protect it from malicious operators.
- nandhp 11y agoWhich is presumably why Firefox's downloads aren't modified (I checked yesterday): http://sourceforge.net/projects/firefox.mirror/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/firefox.mirror/
- doodpants 11y agoThe GPL itself grants permission. Further, it prevents anyone from denying anyone else such permission. That's the whole purpose of the GPL.