Nick Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, let's take a more likely scenario. Alice writes a manifesto for Free > Software. Bob subtly edits it to become a manifesto for Open Source. If Bob > says "Document edited by Bob, based on an original by Alice. (c) Alice 1999, > (c) Bob 2002", then it is likely that most readers would believe Alice's > position to be insignificantly different to Bob's. > > An appropriate license needs to require Bob to make clear that that is > likely not the case.
The only way that Alice is going to prevent her work from being misused is to make it non-modifiable. That is why the FSF makes the GPL unmodifiable. If you have concerns like that, then you need a non-free license. Regards, Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
