What You Need to Know When Working With Mambo Copyright Notices

In this article we deal with the information you need to know when you are working with the Mambo copyright notices.

Your site is yours and contains content that is copyright to either you or your site contributors. With Mambo you have an obligation to maintain the copyright notices within the source code but you do not have to have them showing in the generated code that displays your web pages. Mambo is released under version 2 of the GNU/GPL License. You can read more information about this license here…http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.php
The O'Reilly Open Book Project has more useful information here.. "Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing" (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/osfreesoft/book/ )

Mambo's GNU/General Public License forbids the removal of copyright notices in the SOURCE CODE. All notices must be kept intact on each file.
The copyright notices that appear in the source code (e.g. *.php files, .xml files) vary, but look similar to the following:

/**
* @package Mambo
* @author Mambo Foundation Inc see README.php
* @copyright Mambo Foundation Inc.
* See COPYRIGHT.php for copyright notices and details.
* @license GNU/GPL Version 2, see LICENSE.php
* Mambo is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
* as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.
*/

You are NOT allowed to remove these notices! Mambo does, however, allow you to remove notices that appear in the generated output, ie. those that appear on your web site.

NOTE: Since version 4.6, Mambo no longer includes a generator tag in your page's source code. If you are using an older version of Mambo you will see a generator tag in your page output, within the <head> tags. It is not illegal to remove that entire generator tag, but it is a breach of the license to replace the content of the tag with your own content.

Please Note: add-on components, modules, and other extensions to Mambo come with their own copyright and legal notices. The information given above only applies to the basic Mambo core installations. For information about whether you can legally remove the copyright of 3rd party add-ons, you will need to refer to the information they include and, if in doubt, contact the developer before making any changes.

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