Richard Braakman said: > On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 06:26:07PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: >> In any case, your argument for Invariant Sections applies just as well >> to programs as it does to manuals! >> >> Would you consider a hypothetical program license to be free if it >> allowed 'off-topic' text which must be present unmodified in source >> and object code of all derived versions, and must be displayed >> (perhaps through a command-line option) by every derived program? >> Maybe you would, in which case you're consistent. I wouldn't. > > Heh, you choose an interesting example there. > > (GPL section 2c -- The Startup Banner)
A better example: A program that starts up a browser to display http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/ on startup. The license of the program forbids changing or disabling the browser code (which is completely unrelated to the program's purpose of managing local users/passwords), or changing the startup URL. Is that a free software license? --Joe
