Francesco Poli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 23:48:06 -0400 Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: > >> You can't quite change the name of the work using a patch. You always >> have to distribute the original, which includes its name. If Abiword >> were under a patch-clause license, Debian'd have to distribute >> software which said "This is Abiword" on every startup... plus >> patches. > > But only the original would say "This is Abiword". > The patched one would not. > We would be able to distribute (although in a technically inconvenient > way, that is, through patches) a derivative work whose name is not > "Abiword".
You're missing my point. While what you said was true, it does not in any way refute the statement that we'd also have to distribute software which said "This is Abiword" -- the root to which the patches are applied. -- Brian Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
