On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:24:24AM +0200, Henri Sivonen wrote: > (My question is not Debian-related, but I figured the people who know > the answer read this list.) > > The usual interpretation (seen in the list archives) of the MIT/expat > license seems to be the that the copyright notice needs to be retained > in the source but does not have to be displayed by binaries. > > The license does not say that the binaries do not constitute a copy of > "the Software". What's the basis of the interpretation and that the > copyright notices do not need to be grepped from the source and stuffed > in an about box or similarly placed on binaries? The copyright notice does need to be included with the binaries. On Debian systems it is placed in /usr/share/doc/$package/copyright. This isn't a particularly strange or restrictive thing to require... -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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