On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 08:12:31PM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: > However, PHPNuke's interpretation is broader: it insists that the blurb be > "in the footer of each page", not just the main page. Even if we can can't > determine the above, can we agree that it's not a reasonable interpretation > to apply it to the output of each page (akin to outputting the blurb for > every command issued to gdb)? I agree that this is not a reasonable interpretation of the GPL, and that it is not DFSG-free. > I'm not sure where we could go from there; asking them to change it to only > the main page is pointless if that's 1: still ambiguous and/or 2: still of > questionable DFSG-freeness. Even if that's DFSG-free, it's still probably a > bad idea to ask them to change to that if it's still a questionable > interpretation of the GPL. Let's see if we can build consensus around a few points. Does anyone here hold the position that requiring the copyright notice on the front page would not be DFSG-free, if that's a valid interpretation of the GPL? Does anyone believe the GPL unambiguously *dis*allows that interpretation? Does anyone believe that this interpretation is sufficiently wrong-headed that it should not be considered valid, in spite of statements from the copyright holder or a court ruling? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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