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However, rules about how to package a modified version are acceptable, if they |
However, rules about how to package a modified version are acceptable, |
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don't substantively limit your freedom to release modified versions, or |
if they don't substantively limit your freedom to release modified |
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your freedom to make and use modified versions privately. Rules that “if |
versions, or your freedom to make and use modified versions privately. |
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you make your version available in this way, you must make it available in |
Thus, it is acceptable for the license to require that you change the |
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that way also” can be acceptable too, on the same condition. (Note that |
name of the modified version, remove a logo, or identify your |
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such a rule still leaves you the choice of whether to publish your version |
modifications as yours. As long as these requirements are not so |
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at all.) Rules that require release of source code to the users for |
burdensome that they effectively hamper you from releasing your |
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versions that you put into public use are also acceptable. It is also |
changes, they are acceptable; you're already making other changes to |
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acceptable for the license to require that you identify |
the program, so you won't have trouble making a few more. |
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your modifications as yours, or that, if you have distributed a modified |
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version and a previous developer asks for a copy of it, you must send |
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Rules that “if you make your version available in this way, you |
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must make it available in that way also” can be acceptable too, |
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on the same condition. An example of such an acceptable rule is one |
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saying that if you have distributed a |
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modified version and a previous developer asks for a copy of it, you |
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must send one. (Note that such a rule still leaves you the choice of |
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whether to distribute your version at all.) Rules that require release |
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of source code to the users for versions that you put into public use |
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