Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code

[Chris Jefferson]

Tim Smith wrote:
> On 2004-06-14, Chris Jefferson <caj@cs.york.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> > Now, we realise that evil people could always just ignore the GPL, that
> > isn't a fault of the GPL. But are these two things possible?
>
>
> They can also ignore any non-GPL license, such as what your friends want to
> use.  Your first two questions basically have no bearing on choice of
> license.
No, my question is, can people do these things and remain legally within 
the GPL? I now get the impression they cannot. Even if they distribute 
source, they must make it clear they are distributing an altered copy of 
the program even within the binary, and cannot make small changes like 
removing copyright notices from the binary and redistribute