The License Agreement prohibits altering the copyright notice displayed at the bottom of your forum.
- a. All copyright notices within source files and as generated by the Software as output are retained, unchanged.
Altering the copyright notice will terminate your license to use SMF, and may result in a warning message at the bottom of your forum.
The SMF version number is considered separate the copyright itself, and altering it is not considered a violation of the license. Altering the SMF version number may make it more difficult for the SMF team to offer appropriate help tailored to your version of SMF.
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