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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