On Mon, 03 Mar 2003, Branden Robinson wrote: > According to (2)(c) of version 2 of the GNU GPL, the only "code which > announces" anything that you're not allowed to remove is the > copyright notice and the warranty disclaimer. There are four things that you are not allowed to remove: 1. copyright notice 2. warranty notice 3. redistribution under these conditions 4. how to view license which I've marked in a portion of 2c) below for reference. > to print or display an announcement including an (1) appropriate > copyright notice and a (2) notice that there is no warranty (or > else, saying that you provide a warranty) and that users may (3) > redistribute the program under these conditions, and (4) telling > the user how to view a copy of this License. > > Strictly interpreted[1], that does not include a statement of the > license terms, or a reference to same. I'd argue that '4' includes a reference to the terms of the license. [It's always been my understanding that the You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.[1] clause (or similar) is the reference to the license required by '4'] Of course, if you're saying that the copyright statement doesn't include a statement of the license terms or a statement of how to get the license, that is my understanding as well. Don Armstrong 1: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html#SEC4 -- Il semble que la perfection soit atteinte non quand il n'y a plus rien a ajouter, mais quand il n'y a plus rien a retrancher. (Perfection is apparently not achieved when nothing more can be added, but when nothing else can be removed.) -- Antoine de Saint-Exupe'ry, Terres des Hommes http://www.donarmstrong.com http://www.anylevel.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu
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