Comment Re:No One has answers? (Score 0) 164
What does "...distributed in such a manner as to avoid any confusion with the Original Work of the copyright holders" mean? If I am dsitributing the software from my own website, is it not obvious that no matter what the software says, it is not the Original Work?
No, not really. You could have downloaded the software yourself and decided to put it onto your own site with something saying like "I really liked this software since it does foo, you should try it for yourself" and pass it off as the original. People who don't know better... wouldn't know better.
You would probably have to say something like "I really liked this software, but thought it could do foo like this and bar like that, so I changed it and am giving it up for download. Please note that this is not the original, MS holds no responsibility whatsoever for anything it does (not that they would have anyway but just saying)".
What about if I label the software the same but change the colors on the logo?
I don't really think that's obvious. (Colour)? blind? Broken monitor? Note it says any confusion.
No, not really. You could have downloaded the software yourself and decided to put it onto your own site with something saying like "I really liked this software since it does foo, you should try it for yourself" and pass it off as the original. People who don't know better... wouldn't know better.
You would probably have to say something like "I really liked this software, but thought it could do foo like this and bar like that, so I changed it and am giving it up for download. Please note that this is not the original, MS holds no responsibility whatsoever for anything it does (not that they would have anyway but just saying)".
What about if I label the software the same but change the colors on the logo?
I don't really think that's obvious. (Colour)? blind? Broken monitor? Note it says any confusion.
