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Economic interest in GPL ?

Economic interest in GPL ?

Posted Aug 21, 2008 1:00 UTC (Thu) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
In reply to: Economic interest in GPL ? by jamesh
Parent article: Why the JMRI decision matters

It's also a breach of almost all of the non-copyleft free software licenses (BSD, MIT, Apache, etc) to remove copyright notices.


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Economic interest in GPL ?

Posted Aug 21, 2008 16:07 UTC (Thu) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link]

It's also a breach of almost all of the non-copyleft free software licenses (BSD, MIT, Apache, etc) to remove copyright notices.

AFAIU, this would be a breach of copyright law, that the license reminds you of your obligation in this case is legally irrelevant.

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