On Fri, 30 May 2003, Sven Luther wrote: > Derivative works must not remove the original author's copyright > notices, name or comments from source code and documentation. Doing > so will violate the license. > > I had the impression that the GPL already provides for forcing the > original copyright notice and author name to stay in the modified work, > but could not pinpoint the exact place of it. > > Furthermore, the obligation to not remove comments from the source code > seems to me not compatible with the GPL, but i may be wrong in this. > > Could someone more knowledgeable look into this and give me his advice ?
I certainly don't fall into the "more knowledgeable" class, but I'll make the observation that yes, I think the GPL does already call for the maintenance of copyright notices and warranties. Taking the wording literally, I'm not allowed to remove anything which is a "comment" from the source code. Definitely non-free, and almost certainly not what the author meant. I'm pretty sure that pointing out to him/her that GPL covers these things will cause a quick re-licence. At least, I'd hope so. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- #include <disclaimer.h> Matthew Palmer, Geek In Residence http://ieee.uow.edu.au/~mjp16
