Brian Ristuccia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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.
> Not true. Try "echo quit|gdb|tail -2 > file". You're free to distribute the > resulting file and you own it. Sure -- you are perfectly free to clip off such a notice, if what you're prodicing is not a derivative work. Changing gdb itself so that it doesn't display the notice *is* producing a derivative work -- that was my point. > > 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. > Can't alter the code in Zope, but there's nothing (other than the > bogus clause in the zope license, which is probably unenforcable > anyway) that can prevent you from using another tool to remove the > button from the document. Yes. -- Raul
