Re: Hi Mattice

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[quote="cannuck1964"][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.....
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Okay, I was referring to your question "my work"...
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but GPL and copyright notices are totally different.....one states it is protected...the other is how it is protected....
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Yes, they are different things but they can co-exist. 
Like the default layout or logo is copyrighted, like the default layout of this BBS (phpBB Subsilver Theme) is not GPL, yet free to use as long as the copyright is left there. 

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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?
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No. The Admin and Catalog are not two seperate things in this matter.
They are one application, osCommerce, which has several copyrights implemented under it's GPL licence.

We basically say you can remove the catalog stuff if you make enough changes, but you can not remove / temper the display of the copyright message on the Admin side, no matter what you do. 
This is an end-user friendly solution (ie you do not have to show you are running osCommerce to anybody that does not access the Admin) and does not in any way affect what you can do with osCommerce.

Mattice