Re: [Notion-devel] the agenda

[M R. <mr...@gm...>]

On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 22:16 -0400, Aron Griffis wrote:
> M Rawash wrote:  [Fri Apr 09 2010, 07:35:03PM EDT]
> >> Agreed! (or some clarifications from Tuomo, but doesn't seem to be very responsive)
> >
> >I'd say screw it, let him sue, he doesn't have any legal grounds (saying
> >"section 'x' is void" does not automagically make it so)
> 
> IANAL, but I think you might be wrong. It's his copyright and his
> license based on the LGPL. The LGPL holds no magical powers to
> force people to use it unmodified. 

according to the gnu website, it does:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#ModifyGPL

"You can use the GPL terms (possibly modified) in another license
provided that you call your license by another name and do not include
the GPL preamble, and provided you modify the instructions-for-use at
the end enough to make it clearly different in wording and not mention
GNU (though the actual procedure you describe may be similar)."

let's not forget the LGPL is itself copyrighted...


> If there's any question of legality, it would probably fall in his
> favor.

well, we also have the right to license our work under a different
license according to the "GNU Lesser General Public
License" terms of use (of which Tuomo's terms are in direct violation
of)

just my tupe