On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, John Allman wrote:
> Not on the front page. Only when you read the terms and conditions.
> This is misleading at best.
Not a GPL violation though.
> I think the fsf would want to know regardless. These guys are
> claiming it's GPL'd and then giving a limited licence. I dont know
> if the term GPL is trademarked, but i'm quite sure this is contrary
> to the spirit of the free software foundation and i'm quite sure
> they would want to know if this kind of thing is going on.
I dont think the term 'GPL' is a trademark, or protected in any way.
At worst, it's false advertising but, as it's free, you wont get far
with that either.
Anyway, tell FSF, sure.
> John
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