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Subject: Re: To Fabien Letouzey - about Toga

Author: Robert Allgeuer

Date: 11:23:55 03/17/05

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I have not followed the toga story from the beginning but it appears that a GPL
licenced program (Fruit) was used to produce a derived work (Toga), which then
was published together with the full source. As far as I understand this is very
much in the spirit of the GPL.

The main issue however appears to be the name change. Reading the GPL I cannot
see any provision in the GPL that requires derived work to carry the same name
as the original work, as far as I understand the GPL just requires source code
distribution, GPL licencing, notices etc., but not to keep the name of the work.

So the question is: on which basis is this name change critcised? Is there
something in the GPL which I overlooked that mandates keeping the original name
also for derived work?

Possibly this is also an oversight in the GPL.

Robert



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