> On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 09:25:03AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > I came on a program that is distributed under the GPL with the addition > > of the following exception : > > > > 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.
As Branden says, extremely non-free to disallow removal/alteration of comments. Removal specifically of copyright notices is already protected, and doesn't need a seperate clause. Depending on how one interprets the addition of restrictions to the GPL, it may be undistributable at all. On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Branden Robinson wrote: > I hope the copyright holder realizes that this restriction is > unenforceable under copyright law if the source code and documentation > are rewritten such that they are no longer derivative works. I don't disagree, but I think I'm missing something WRT the reason for your comment. It never crossed my mind that a license author would expect such a restriction to apply to original works. In this case, it even says "Derivative works must...". -- Mark Rafn [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.dagon.net/>
