Re: Copyright violation? How?

Ian Collier <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.lynx.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 09:55:43PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Mouse dixit:
> >#define UA_COPYRIGHT_WARNING \
> > "WARNING: Misrepresentation of the User-Agent may be a copyright violation!"

> Eh, I've never seen that one... not between 2.8.6 and 2.9 anyway.
> If it existed it must be positively ancient.

Yes, you are right.  It appears to me that this text was present in 2.8.2
but was eliminated in 2.8.3dev.13, released October 1999.

* made User-Agent warning more friendly, and more specific.  Tell the user what
  lynx expects in order to avoid the warning.  On the other hand, issue an
  equivalent warning when -useragent is used.  Change documentation
  accordingly.

imc

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