Messages in this thread | | | From | Mark Adler <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] gcc 3.5 fixes | Date | Mon, 5 Jul 2004 18:16:29 -0700 |
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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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