Subject: Re: ocaml website: netbsd copycat
To: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
From: Roland Dowdeswell <elric@imrryr.org>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 07/21/2003 01:58:24
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"Perry E. Metzger" wrote:
>
>Jason Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com> writes:
>> On Sunday, July 20, 2003, at 01:15  PM, Lennart Augustsson wrote:
>> 
>> > Why not?
>> 
>> By providing them to mirrors under a more strict license, we can
>> e.g. prevent the NetBSD pages from being modified.  The NetBSD Project
>> should want to control the content of its web pages and not allow 3rd
>> parties who present the material (e.g. mirrors) to modify it in ways
>> that the Project may not want.
>
>One can do that without having a particularly restrictive license. For
>example, one could simply add a license that required that changes not
>deceive people into thinking TNF had created the pages. Certainly if
>someone redoes the pages for another project, it won't cause
>confusion.

I think that this would actually be a trademark issue and not a
licensing issue anyway.  Different laws would then apply.

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    Roland Dowdeswell                      http://www.Imrryr.ORG/~elric/