On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 02:04:30PM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > As an example, RieserFS is GPL'd code. It contains lots of > advertisements and props to sponsors. It is perfectly in the realm of > the GPL.
i seem to remember that i think in debian they wanted to remove some of those ads and got a complaint (not that that would have been enforcible) > The GNU GPL does allow one type of forced speech: The copyright > blurbwhen the program is run interactively. If such a blurb is there, > you may not remove it. I'm not a big fan of that clause, personally. isn't that part of the general requirement that you must inform the user about the license? so, i don't think that's an if, but simply, you must have such a blurb somewhere. greetings, martin. -- cooperative communication with sTeam - caudium, pike, roxen and unix offering: programming, training and administration - anywhere in the world -- pike programmer travelling and working in europe open-steam.org unix system- bahai.or.at iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at administrator (caudium|gotpike).org is.schon.org Martin Bähr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
