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The following applies only to version 1.1 |
The License Agreement prohibits altering the copyright notice displayed at the bottom of your forum. 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.
If a user sees a warning message on their forum, it is likely that something they have done has altered the copyright function. If the admin is seeing these messages, they should check the mods which they recently installed and uninstall it as soon as possible.
Outdated language files can also cause this message to show. If that is the cause, the admin should visit the Downloads Page and download updated language packs.
The SMF copyright must remain on all forums. If it is removed, Simple Machines reserves the right to seek legal action. You cannot alter, remove, or hide the copyright tag at the bottom of any SMF forum in any way, with the exception of having written permission from Simple Machines.
Also, you are not allowed to alter or remove any credit information from the SMF source code. You cannot copy any part of the SMF source code, or claim any SMF code is yours.
Please read The Simple Machines License for further information.
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The following applies only to version 2.0+ |
The SMF copyright notice can be removed, but if you choose to do so, you will not be eligible to receive support from the Simple Machines Team. The copyright notice still cannot be removed from the file header.
Related Reading: SMF License Agreement
