[dundee] questions about GPL

[Tim Spencer]

http://flexpaper.devaldi.com/download/

bottom left hand corner under free download

On 22 October 2012 14:58, Andrew Clayton <andrew at digital-domain.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 10:56:17 +0200, Tim Spencer wrote:
>
> > I knew you had to reference exsisting programmer in the code and also
> > provide users with the source code but is the below allowed for code
> > realeased under GPL.
> >
> > "According to the GPL our branding information must be displayed even
> > if
> > > you modify the source code of the viewer."
>
> AFAICT the GPL has no such conditions, But as always, for legal advice
> ask a Lawyer.
>
> You can have a Firefox situation, where there are certain things you
> need to abide by to still call it Firefox. Debian make sufficient
> changes that they need to call it something else (Iceweasel). But
> that's not a licensing thing, it's a trademark name thing.
>
> Andrew
>
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