Charles C wrote:
> Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
>> stevenvh wrote:
>>> Illegal? No
>> Wrong!!! It is illegal to remove copyright notices from copyrighted works.
>> The splash screen is exactly such a copyright notice.
>>
>> If you look even at say the GPL 3 draft (section 7, point b), you will
>> notice that they explicitly allow authors to prevent removal of splash
>> screens and such as an optional addendum to the license. And that is just
>> one recent example.
>>
>>  Thorsten
> 
> Hmm....  It seems like if it's necessary to put something in a license it's

Did you actually read the GPL 3 draft? You are responding to something that
this isn't about: There is no question about it being illegal, but the fact
that the GPL due to its nature would allow such illegal act by default (as
it allows any kind of modification) and hence includes provisions to prevent
specific normally illegal acts by making them illegal even within the very
*liberal* context of the GPL towards copyright.

	Thorsten

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