GPL violation? Count not connect to Sugar Server?

[MateoLeFou]

Just now my SugarCRM installation, which has hummed along nicely for months, starting acting odd when i tightened the firewall. Now I get a

"This copy of the SugarCRM customer relationship management program appears to have legal notices or author attributions modified or removed in violation of the GNU General Public License version 3. Please contact SugarCRM Inc. to correct this problem."

upon admin login.

no one my team has, to my knowledged, modified anything like this.

After this completes, the admin dashboard has

"Error: Could not connect to the Sugar Server. Please check your Proxy Settings value in the System Settings admin panel. Last attempted connection @ 03/27/2009 02:02pm"

So is this thing phoning home? I have no proxy enabled; do I need one? I don't particularly need/want automatic updates.

[MateoLeFou]

I've turned off software updates in the admin panel and still get this message.

[crmsiva]

Did you remove the Sugar Copyright info or logo from footer?

[MateoLeFou]

no one my team has, to my knowledged, modified anything like this.