On Wed, Feb 1, 2012, at 01:55 AM, Chris Travers wrote: > Does the GPL v3 give you the permission to drop legitimate > copyright notices from software or accompanying documentation?
As you note, the GPLv3 7b provides the right to require the preservation of legal notices and author attributions in the material that an author has copyright for; and any derivative works of that material. > I would add further that the requirement for attribution/copyright > notice seems entirely in line with the 7b attribution terms. I don't > see why you have to see this as a new license. This requirement was completely different. It was an attribution in dynamically generated content, the generated PDF, which is not their copyrighted material but instead the output of their program. That said, programs that include boilerplate copyrighted material in their output (Bison) might require that the output itself be released under the GPLv3. However, it is traditional for the FSF to provide an exception for this case. Even in this case though, if the output might be considered a work "based on" the processor itself, it not be an interactive user interface, so I'm not sure if 7b would apply. Best, Clark _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss