Re: mention printing of warranty information in GUI programs

[Florian Weimer]

* Alfred M. Szmidt:

> What do people think about this?
>
> This aims to clarify that we prefer to have such information in both
> --version, and in GUI programs.  This came up in a discussion on
> emacs-devel.

> @@ -962,6 +962,11 @@
>  screen readers (see
>  @url{https://www.gnu.org/accessibility/accessibility.html}).  This should
>  be automatic if you use GTK+.
> +
> +If your program is interactive, please also print the same information
> +as for the @code{--version} option (@pxref{--version}) on program
> +startup, and also provide instructions how to get more information
> +about the copying conditions and warranty details.

The GPL does not allow removing such a message once the program has
it.  So this must be used with caution because it can turn into an
excessive burden, depending how the program is used in the future.