Hi Mattice

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[quote]AFAIK any contribution that uses osC code fragments / can not exist without osCommerce is automatically pulled into the GPL. It is called the "GPL Viral Effect". [/quote]

Yes I understand that concept very well....if I make something for osc to us, then it is GPL as well.....

but GPL and copyright notices are totally different.....one states it is protected...the other is how it is protected....

I have read over the thread and understand what is being done now...

I was a little confused when it when Harald wrote

[quote]osCommerce is released under the GPL license and is copyrighted work - if we do not enforce this with violations, then we lose the the GPL and Copyright rights of osCommerce. [/quote]

If osc is not pursuing GPL 2c on the catalog, yet wants to do so on the admin, is this not a contradiction, and no enforcing the copyright?


cheers,