On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 12:13:07PM -0700, izzabdullah <[email protected]> wrote: > Jesse Vincent wrote: > > > > Please don't remove the product's copyright message. > > Isn't this, in essence, violating the GNU GPL which is also in the footer? > I was able to directly edit the Footer file in this location on our > installation:
Hi Izz, You are correct that at a technical level, an unscrupulous user has the capability to remove RT's copyright notice. I politely asked the user not to do so. The Free Software Foundation does publish guidance about the GPL. As far as I can tell, the FSF agree with you 100% -- They consider removing the copyright notice from a product to be a license violation: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.html#IWantCredit Best, Jesse Vincent Best Practical -------- RT Training Sessions (http://bestpractical.com/services/training.html) * Chicago, IL, USA September 26 & 27, 2011 * San Francisco, CA, USA October 18 & 19, 2011 * Washington DC, USA October 31 & November 1, 2011 * Melbourne VIC, Australia November 28 & 29, 2011 * Barcelona, Spain November 28 & 29, 2011
