Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 ?
I don't know why they added it. Maybe you could ask them. The usual reason is to make such a change not merely a crime, but also copyright infringement, so as to extract punitive damages as well. But as a side effect, it also makes a bunch of good things violate the license -- like translating "Copyright (c) 2004 Bob Smith" to whatever language is appropriate. -Brian -- Brian Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
