Jules Bean wrote: > > Ah.. but we accept (I think) licenses which prohibit the removal of > > copyright notices such as the panel.
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can think of one example of this -- the GPL itself: > > c) If the modified program normally reads commands interactively when > run, you must cause it, when started running for such interactive use > in the most ordinary way, to print or display an announcement > including an appropriate copyright notice and a notice that there is > no warranty (or else, saying that you provide a warranty) and that > users may redistribute the program under these conditions, and > telling the user how to view a copy of this License. (Exception: if > the Program itself is interactive but does not normally print such an > announcement, your work based on the Program is not required to print > an announcement.) > > This seems to say that if the FSF releases a program that prints out such an > announcement, we cannot legally remove that announcement. Note that, to remove this copyright notice, you need to create a derivative work. Copyright law grants exclusive control of this to the copyright holder. If Zope wants their editor to always place a copyright notice in editted documents, and they don't want to grant us the right to alter that part of the code, they're within their rights -- but, of course, that would greatly limit the utility of the editor. -- Raul
