On Friday 04 March 2005 03:48, Mike Taylor wrote: > I just talked to a friend of mine who works for the FSF and he > explained to me that as long as the GPL2 license is included in the > distribution there is no need to display it in a "click thru" manner.
Correct. GPL section 1: "You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty; and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License along with the Program." That is: - a copy of the GPL must be included - the licensed work must contain copyright notices saying it's licensed under the GPL - a disclaimer of warranty must be included Furthermore, section 2c says that it you modify and include an existing interactive GPL program that displays the above info when run "in the most ordinary way" then your modified version of it also have to do that. AFAICT the GPL doesn't say anything about displaying anything when installing an application. - Marcus _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Open Source Applications Foundation "Dev" mailing list http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
