[svlug] limewire on Linux

[Ivan Sergio Borgonovo]

On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 14:39:46 -0800
Don Marti <dmarti at zgp.org> wrote:

> > It looks it is GPLed.
> > If[1] it had spyware someone would fork.

> That's true, but the particular download that
> the Windows user has might be built with spyware.

It looks as it is a Java app. The source code *should* be the same
for Win and Linux, at least that's what it seems looking at the
instruction on how to build it.

> This is why the Mozilla Corporation is so strict
> about the "Firefox" trademark -- so that they can
> use trademark law to stop some Windows download site
> from redistributing a version with something nasty,
> but permissible under the copyright license, built in.

Under GPL license you're free to modify and redistribute the code.
Trademark won't let you redistribute it under someone else name.
I don't know about Mozilla/wahtever license.

I wonder if you can actually stop someone redistributing Firefox with
some nasty plugin under trademark laws.
You pack Firefox unmodified *or* just the plugin and write on the
label "plugin for Firefox" as you would do for "Image viewer for
Microsoft Windows".

Trademark may be used if you distribute a modified Firefox under the
Firefox name as it happened with Iceweasel/ape/*.

Anyway IANAL.

> TheOpenCD does something like the QA role of a Linux
> distribution, but without the Linux.  Might be worth
> checking out for cases like this.
>   http://www.theopencd.org/programs

Similar italian project with some lists of other lists of Win
Free/Open Software

http://eagleone.homelinux.org/

-- 
Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
http://www.webthatworks.it