Re: Novell/progeny to take up redhat legacy services

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Quoting Eric Rostetter <rostetter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Quoting Carlos Villegas <villegas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > I'm not a lawyer, but that example (personalized binary) clearly would
> > violate the GPL, if the original code is GPL, then any derivative work is
> > GPL (personlized source that produced the binary), as such you are entitled
> > to that source and can redistribute it and modify it as you please.
>
> Not always.  If I personalize it with copyrighted/tradmarked material, you
> are entitled to the source still, but you can not sell it to others with my
> copyrighted/trademarked materials inside.  It's a bit vague if you give it
> away, but generally that is also a bad thing.

Actually, that probably isn't true in most cases for copyrighted material.
But it does apply to trademarked material, or material licensed other
other terms/conditions/licenses.

Sorry about that.

--
Eric Rostetter




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