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Subject: Re: Open source engines and licensing

Author: Jon Dart

Date: 07:00:45 02/24/06

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On February 24, 2006 at 03:02:46, Robert Allgeuer wrote:


>GPL does not require you to acknowledge the original author of the code, it just
>mandates that any derived work has to be redistributed together with the full
>source of old and new parts and a copy of the GPL. Which makes sense, a GPLed
>software may have hundreds of authors after some time. GPL also does not prevent
>you from renaming the software.

GPL does not remove or replace the author's copyright. I do
not believe you can strip all notice of copyright out of the
files and re-distribute it. If you look at Linux source you
will see at least the original contributor's copyright notices
there.

Also, with the original and derived source public,
it is possible to see how similar the two programs are.

--Jon



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