IMO, a requirement that a logo be included is not an additional restriction
permitted by the GPLv3. Under Section 7(b), it is not a "legal notice" (a
trademark is not a notice, it's branding) or an "author attribution"
(copyright authorship and branding are entirely different things). It is
effectively the opposite of what Sections 7(c), (d) and (e) permit, forcing
the misrepresentation of the product if someone has modified the code (the
logo indicates that the product is the authentic original software but it
may not be if it's been modified), it is forcing using a name for publicity
purposes, and it is requiring the use of a trademark, not prohibiting it.
Pam Chestek
On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 2:48 PM Pete Savage <psavage(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Hi all,
I am working on a package for the sFizz project which provides a VST3
plugin, among others. The VST3 SDK from Steinberg is licensed under a
compatible license, but imposes extra "guidelines" which has previously
seen it be inadmissible in the Fedora repos and lead to some considerable
effort to work around. One of the developers of sFizz asked the question on
the Steinberg Forum:
https://forums.steinberg.net/t/vst-3-sdk-licensing-faq/201638/20?u=jpcima
Which contains relevant links, however I also received other information
from another source that stated:
Section 7:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html
All other non-permissive additional terms are considered “further restrictions” within
the meaning of section 10. If the Program as you received it, or any part of it, contains
a notice stating that it is governed by this License along with a term that is a further
restriction, you may remove that term.
Yet someone else countered this with:
Section 7 also contains a list of non-permissive additional terms that
*are* allowed to be imposed on top of the gpl
Can someone comment on this please, I'd prefer not to have to strip the
VST plugin as it is the preferred format and would take considerable effort
to do so.
Pete
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