Francesco Poli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 12:40:23 -0400 Raul Miller wrote: > >> If we are prohibited from removing the name abiword from some >> derivative form of the program, then we must be allowed to have >> abiword on that derivative form. > > That's not enough for DFSG-freeness, IMHO: if I'm required to keep the > name "abiword" in every derivative work of abiword, I cannot sanely > choose a name for a derivative that is significantly different (in > scope, purpose, functionality and so forth) from the original. > > That is a major restriction in modification and it seems to fail DFSG#3.
It's a smaller restriction on modification than a patch clause, and so DFSG-free. It's distasteful for the same reasons as a patch clause, but in the imagined world where i have to call every derivative of FooWriter "FooWriter" I can just call the kernel I develop from it "FooWriter OS" and the movie script "FooWriter: The Movie" and so on.. -Brian -- Brian Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
