On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 02:46:25PM +0530, Ramachandra Putti wrote:

I know that Mozilla is under GPL. But I would like to know whether i need to include their logo etc when distribuing commercial software when I am not changing their source code at all.

Take a look at the GPL ... it kinda says that in the source code that you will distribute, make sure that you prominently display the copyrights and (lack of) warranty of the original program. Also, it has a clause about making sure you display info about the original program in a working copy of your program, "when started running for such interactive use in the most ordinary way", but further on it says you have to do this only if the original program does so too!

So, after all that semi-legal BS, what I am trying to say is that if on the commandline, Mozilla displays its own banner, you have to do it too. IANAL, but I think you need not really put up a logo on your product, although it would be good advertising for you as well as mozilla if you do prominently say that its powered by mozilla!

Red Hat's specification on how to display their name on a derivative distribution is a very practical guideline. Its kinda designed to make sure that the derived distro can leverage Red Hat's name, while Red Hat gets free advertisement, and at the same time ensures that the flames are redirected to the correct party.

Sameer.