Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Hyperbola: Other "Information for practical use" under a free license

[Ineiev]

On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 09:51:31AM -0400, bill-auger wrote:
> On Mon, 2018-05-14 at 05:16 -0400, Ineiev wrote:
> > In fact, many free software licenses have provisions
> > against misrepresentation of the origin: I can't modify
> > a program and say that it comes from the original authors
> > unchanged; this still doesn't make that program nonfree
> > in the sense of modifications.
> 
> indeed, this is true for software licenses like GPL - and to underline the
> "unchanged" but: it also requires that modifications must be clearly noted as
> such - so even the GPL would be a better choice for "works stating an opinion"
> than the free culture licenses

To tell the truth, licenses like CC BY-SA 4.0 do require

"* Attribution — You must give appropriate credit... and _indicate if
changes were made_."

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