Sven Luther writes: > On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 12:22:04PM -0400, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: >> The law already makes it illegal to tamper with copyright notices; a >> license doesn't need to say that in order to make it wrong to do so. >> Perhaps it could just be left out? > > Given that lawyer wrote this licence, why did they add it. And in any case, > what harm is there to do so ?
Lawyers often add clauses because they're paid by the person who benefits from the clause -- and it makes more work for lawyers when you need to argue over it. If I convert a GUI program to work from the command line, a dialog box could contain a copyright notice. Even if I add new copyright notices with parallel content and function, I would still violate that license clause against removing copyright notices from the software. Michael Poole
