On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 06:06:19PM -0500, David Turner wrote: > > However, if we accept the theory that the reader of the website is also > > a user of the program (which does have something going for it), GPL > > 2(c) says that the notice must be displayed "when started running for > > such interactive use in the most ordinary way". That would be on the > > front page of the website (http://www.example.org/), but not > > necessarily on each of the generated pages one sees *after* having > > started browsing the site. > I guess that's true, although if you bookmark a page, and come back to > it, that might be a new start. However, the GPL specifically says "in the most ordinary way". It seems to me that deep linking is not the "most ordinary way" of starting a session on a given website, just like adding extra commandline arguments to one's invocation of a command which disable banner display is the "most ordinary way". -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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