BolgenOS

[Henry Dubb]

On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Johnneylee Rollins <
johnneylee.rollins at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 4:42 AM, Daniel <asmosis.asterix at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Excuse me? What did Ubuntu to Debian?
> >
> <snip>
> It's a question of reinventing the wheel when someone will lend you a
> perfectly working one.
> But there is a difference between building off another person{s} work,
> and taking it and rebranding it as if you did the whole thing. That's
> a copyright infringement.


No, but using their branding as your own might certainly be. Now if the dude
used the Ubuntu logo as his own that would be another story. For example an
ad company in Australia used the Ubuntu logo.

The whole point of open source is you can do exactly what the kid did. If he
can run better repositories, better support, no problem for me. I use Mint
for this very reason.  Hopefully in the end it will make all distributions
better.


> Jerk better make it GPL.
>

 It is GPL, that doesn't change. Sounds like the only thing he
could license is the name anyway. It baffles me this is an issue.

>
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