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As I understand it, this is not permitted under the GNU General Public License v3.0. Is that correct? I would think that certain licenses do permit this (MIT possibly?). Could anybody with knowledge chime in?


MIT prohibits this. You can use the code and remix it or add your own copyrighted code, but pretty much the only thing you can’t do is remove the original copyright text.


I assume copyright law prohibits this too.


Copyright law doesn't care about copyright notices. They are informational and not necessary or sufficient to enforce copyright.




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