RE: osCommerce Copyright Notice

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[quote="cyt0plas"]

So, I am required to let php print out your copyright notice.  I understand that.  However, can't I just add my own marks before and after, namely "<!--" and "-->"?[/quote]

cyt0plas brings up a good point - and I believe a valid one.  After reading the GPL, it simply states that the copyright notice must be printed or displayed - it does not state that if another program (a web browser) is interpreting the output (displaying a processed web page) that it must also display the copyright notice.  So, if anyone has serious problems with displaying the notice to the administrator then all you have to do is include it in HTML comment tags and it won't be displayed by the web browser (though it will still be in the source code for the page) and I believe (IANAL) that it will satisfy the requirements of the GPL in section 2c.

What is everyone else's take on this?