For the record it is perfectly legal to not display the visible copyright footer on your sites template.
In fact in 4.5.3 you will be able to do this without modifying the default templates by unpublishing the new 'footer' module.
Secondly it is perfectly legal to not show the meta creator copyright tag. All you have to do is not load mosShowhead in your template. Of course if you do this you lose some functionality that mambo uses within the mosShowhead function.
When the GPL states you cannot remove the copyright statements within the code, this means that if you open a mambo file you should always see the copyright statement at the top, e.g.:
Code:
<?php
/**
* @version $Id: index.php,v 1.46 2005/08/02 09:53:35 akede Exp $
* @package Mambo
* @copyright (C) 2000 - 2005 Miro International Pty Ltd
* @license http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU/GPL
* Mambo is Free Software
*/
There is NO way to know if this has been removed by simply viewing the HTML source of a web page. What the GPL references is the code source of the file.
I know you have the best of intentions, but please be very carefull about accusing people of breaching the GPL License.
If you suspect a breach of the GPL license please contact us through the proper channels - read below - and let our legal team investigate the problem.
http://www.mamboserver.com/index.php...d=49&Itemid=86