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Re: License determination



I'd like to know more about this.  I'm aware of ocs, and their bundle of
web based office stuff.  It's good stuff,  what are the legal concerns
here?  I'd really like to see this bundle in debian...

NatePuri
Certified Law Student
& Debian GNU/Linux Monk
McGeorge School of Law
publisher@ompages.com
http://ompages.com

On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Randy Edwards wrote:

> > If he's simply trying to keep his name and copyright from being removed from
> > the about screen, or prevent links to the about screen from being removed,
> > this clause is probably unneccessary.
> 
>    I should explain more.  The author's purpose, I'm relatively sure, is to
> get a bit of attention/credit and/or do some advertising.
> 
>    The package in question is ocs, a suite of web-based programs whose
> components (e-mail, chat, calendar, etc.) work from a common base.  Thus the
> program's output is html and the GPL restriction/addition is a hypertext link
> on the login screen of the system and a similar link in the about screen. 
> This link points to ocs' own web page.
> 
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