Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code

[Barry Margolin]

In article <m3hdtciw8g.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu>,
 prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) wrote:

> Chris Jefferson <caj@cs.york.ac.uk> wrote:
> > However they do not have to make it clear in the normal execution of
> > the binary that they have made any changes.  This is in my opinion
> > unacceptable if it's true.
> 
> If your program is interactive, then wherever your original version
> emits a copyright notice, any modified versions are required to emit
> their own copyright notices, according to section 2c.  (I think;
> IANAL.)

His concern is that this copyright notice is not required to say that 
the program has been modified from the original author's version.  That 
requirement is only on the modified files themselves, in section 2a.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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