Raphaël Quinet wrote:
> On Tue, 28 May 2002 14:52:53 -0700, "Ben Gertzfield" <che@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Howdy GIMP folks. Here are some points in the licensing of GIMP that
> > need to be addressed. Specifically, there's a lot of code that requires
> > that the authors be mentioned in the documentation, but there is no
> > mention of them anywhere.
>
> Hmmm... This is bad, because this is not compatible with the GPL. So we
> must either stop distributing these files or distribute them in a separate
> package that is not GPL'ed.
Why is giving credit to an author incompatible with the GPL? I
see no reason why an advertising clause need cause an issue...
could someone explain it to me?
Dave.
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David Neary,
Marseille, France
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