[greasemonkey] Re: [Greasemonkey] Modifying other authors' GmScripts

[Michael Bierman]

What good is a license if you can't determine who issued it, who is
obligated by it, and who the user is obligated to? 

It seems to me that if people are convinced that user scripts should carry a
license, then the author has to be identified somehow. 

Michael 

-----Original Message-----
From: greasemonkey-bounces at mozdev.org
[mailto:greasemonkey-bounces at mozdev.org] On Behalf Of Martin Sarsale
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 5:59 AM
To: greasemonkey at mozdev.org
Subject: [greasemonkey] Re: [Greasemonkey] Modifying other authors'
GmScripts

> I think it is "Rude!" to modify other authors' scripts and then 
> publish them as the "original" script (new version or not) without the 
> express permission of the original author.

Usually the "express permission" is given by the license the script has.
For example
http://dunck.us/code/greasemonkey/gmail-mark-read-button.user.js
is GPL code, you don't need more permission than that to start a new script
based on that, with other name. Its nice to provide a link to the original
script, anway :)

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPL