Author: Robert Allgeuer
Date: 08:40:42 02/24/06
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On February 24, 2006 at 10:00:45, Jon Dart wrote: >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 Yes, you are right, I checked in the text and the GPL actually also requires you to publish a copyright notice (which may btw prove difficult in case the original work did not have an explicit one) and a disclaimer of warranty. This is the relevant part of the licence text: 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. Robert
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