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SubjectRe: [PATCH] gcc 3.5 fixes
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On Jul 5, 2004, at 2:44 PM, Paul Jackson wrote:
> I'm not a lawyer, but I don't see why you'd want the copyright notice
> in the executable:

It's not about the copyright. I like the string kept in the object
code so that I and others can find out where the code is used and what
version is in use. This in fact turned out to be useful when a
security vulnerability was found in versions 1.1.3 and earlier and a
script could search for executables with the offending code.

mark

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