Re: books packs (was: Re: The Emacs World (was: Re: how can I convert the To field to CC))

[Emanuel Berg]

Jean Louis wrote:

> I suggest that you read the GPLv3 by doing C-h C-c the
> section "How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs" and
> add the proper copyright notice in accordance with licensing
> terms of GPL version 3. It is for your protection and for
> other people to know what rights they are getting.
>
> Providing only a notice "License: GPLv3" is not enough.
>
> Let us say it legally, if author did not read the license
> GPL version 3 than author will not know the licensing terms
> and the fact that author did not know the licensing terms is
> shown by lack of application of the licensing terms, in this
> case proper copyright notice.
>
> Author could as well then say later that he, author, was not
> aware that GPL version 3 is free software and that he only
> gave permission to download, but not to modify as
> hypothetical example.
>
> Software may be sold and re-sold and third party could sell
> the software to user, and user could claim that if software
> was sold user is asking for warranties, could even come to
> original author by mistake. If notice about warranties is
> not displayed it can cause troubles.
>
> GPL version 3 software is often sold through market places
> of freelancers such as freelancer.com or fiverr.com I know
> that as I have been selling to clients. Free software is
> often used in larger corporate server farms and applications
> with hundreds or maybe thousands of customers paying high
> prices for some functions.
>
> We know you, but the distributors of software will not know
> the author, and user will not know what "GPLv3"
> means itself.

Thank you Jean! Interesting.

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