One solution to the problem is to get the source code, delete the lines which
insert the copyright notice (“modify the code”), compile the code, and use
this. This is legal as the code is released under GPL and GPL allows
modifications. (You could release your modifications too. This is how
Hello Claudius
I am not convinced that the notice is harmless. At any rate, since the GS code
is released as GPL, I am well within my rights to alter it as I suggested.
(But, IANAL.)
Note that in some jurisdictions, not even
such a notice is necessary in order to hold the copyright, nor does
Filed a bug-report:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=696539
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Hello Claudius
Firefox is free software and you are free to modify it, either
before or after you install it. I chose to modify it before I
installed it. I modified it by removing the EULA. So there is no
EULA, no agreement between me and the Mozilla Corporation, no
contract. Just
Hello all
pdf2ps, which is a frontend to gs, inserts a copyright notice in all PS files
it produces. I am using `GPL Ghostscript 8.71 (2010-02-10)'. Files look like
this:
%!PS-Adobe-3.0
...
%%Creator: GPL Ghostscript 871 (pswrite)
...
%%BeginProlog
% This copyright applies to everything
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