Sticky Please help me understand the GPL for Kunena ... (and removing the "Powered by Kunena" link)

GPL Faq: If I distribute GPL'd software for a fee, am I required to also make it available to the public without a charge?
No. However, if someone pays your fee and gets a copy, the GPL gives them the freedom to release it to the public, with or without a fee. For example, someone could pay your fee, and then put her copy on a web site for the general public.


Link for more info: GNU GPL

So what this means is we can remove the credits if we can, only if we dont re-distribute under our name or sell the changed version of this product ?

lafanter wrote: So what this means is we can remove the credits if we can, only if we dont re-distribute under our name or sell the changed version of this product ?

please see my reply in your topic so not to derail this one..

www.kunena.com/forum/159-k-16-common-que...at-the-bottom-#59668

i did man, i did. hold your horses

Kunena forum software is copyright protected, licensed and distributed to you under the GNU GPL . The licence does not prohibit the removal of the visible copyright. In layman's terms the visible copyright is the same as the "powered by" link. The software is released with no warranty and no guaranteed or implied support. Users do nothing illegal by removing the copyright; we simply request that they do not.

There are deeper issues involved in what constitutes a legal breach of the GPL but this is not the appropriate forum for those kinds of discussions.

Well, the GPL covers the removal of the headers of the files.
Not the code itself. The link is in the code, so anyone is free to remove it (if he/she can).

My suggestion to Kunena Team is to proceed as phpBB does. Anyone who removes the copyright has the right to do it.
However he/she is not eligible for support in the forum.