On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 05:19, Thomas Dickey wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (replying to a troll) > >> > > >> > (I really hope not to start a flame war ...) > >> > >> They don't want people to be able to legally remove the advertisement. > > > And that violates the GPL's "no restrictions" clause. > > self-serving nonsense. Most copyright notices contain a clause that > prohibits removing the notice. That does not (in my experience has > not) stop people from using extended sections of code, removing the > copyright notice and using it without credit.
Just beccause "it's done" doesn't make it "right" or "legal". > (if you want to make a point, try to make it useful) But that's the argument that's being made. I'm going to be very sad if a few minor license changes leads to the major Linux distros (and possibly OBSD) tossing out such an integral part of the desk- top just as momentum is starting to build. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Windows sucks. No, really. Any butt-wipe pseudo-OS that *needs* kludges like PC-Anywhere or RDP for remote access, and only allows 1 login at a time shouldn't be allowed to exist, and it's developers should be shot.
