This is not a good trend
This is not a good trend
Posted Mar 3, 2025 6:15 UTC (Mon) by NYKevin (subscriber, #129325)In reply to: This is not a good trend by pizza
Parent article: Fedora discusses Flatpak priorities
> To “modify” a work means to copy from or adapt all or part of the work in a fashion requiring copyright permission, other than the making of an exact copy. The resulting work is called a “modified version” of the earlier work or a work “based on” the earlier work.
In other words: If you distribute any file that is not 100% identical to a file provided by upstream, then you have modified the work.
You can scream until you're blue in the face that this is inconvenient, unreasonable, not what people do in practice, overly strict, etc., but if you get sued, the courts will not be interested in anything outside of the four corners of the license as it is actually written. So you should comply with the license as it is written, or at least be prepared to comply when some upstream inevitably asks you to do so.
Posted Mar 3, 2025 13:55 UTC (Mon)
by pizza (subscriber, #46)
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...but that only matters if you do so "in a fashion that requires copyright permission".
Meanwhile. These copyright holders don't get to scream "BUT MAH TRADEMARKS!!!" if you create derivatives of their F/OSS that contain their trademarks, but also scream "BUT MAH TRADEMARKS!!!" if you first *strip out* every one of their trademarks and call it something completely different.
Posted Mar 3, 2025 18:59 UTC (Mon)
by NYKevin (subscriber, #129325)
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I agree. But I have never heard of the latter happening. I think you just made it up.
This is not a good trend
This is not a good trend