On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 03:35:52PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: > > No, it does not, in this you are wrong. You can't modify a GPL'd program > > and take away the "announcement" mentioned in GPL#2,(b). You just can't. > > And this is a functional modification, that you are forbidden to do. > > That is true, yes. I got too worked up trying do decipher Raul > Miller's example to see the obvious.
FWIW, I consider this a little non-freeness in the GPL. I don't like having to reconfigure applications to convince them not to spam me with license blurbs on startup (no more than, say, credit or sponsor lists); if I cared about those, I'd look in the documentation. This may be one of those "DFSG#10 is the only real defense" cases. -- Glenn Maynard
