On Wednesday 19 March 2008, Colin Guthrie wrote: > Also as it's GPL and as you are "supplying" the modifications you make > to your client, you are obliged to release the changes you make to the > community. If this was a 100% internal development (e.g. you are > employed directly by your client, not as a contractor), then you are not > obliged to release the changes. Not true. If you take an open source project, modify it, and give a copy to your client, you are under no obligation to give anyone else in the world a copy of your modified code. What you ARE required to do is give that modified to code to your client under the GPL so that he can, if he wants to, share it with the world, and anyone he gives a copy to can also share it with the world if they want to, etc. Removing any user-facing references to the original project is completely legal. Whether or not it is polite or acting with the "spirit" of the community, etc. is a question of community ethics, not law, and something you'll have to decide for yourself. -- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 larry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ICQ: 6817012 "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
