On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 04:47:53PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña: > > > Copyright 1997-2006 Software in the Public Interest, Inc. All rights reserved. > > Is this correct? Have all contributors assigned copyright to SPI? Contributor assignment and the license itself are two different things. We could just have the license and have a (c) statement different from the above. Please don't mix stuff. > > 2. Redistributions in compiled form (transformed to other DTDs, converted > > to HTML, PDF, PostScript, RTF and other formats) must reproduce the above > > copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in > > the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. > > It looks to me as if this requires that the license and disclaimer > needs to be reproduced at the bottom of each web page (because that's > what you get as the "distribution" when you just request a single > page). I don't think this is a good idea. You're streching this a bit. The *whole* web site is the redistribution of the sources and having a footer link that points to the license is just as well. If you want to include a *single* file of the website (in a document, in a package, whatever) then you should carry the license itself. That is commonly done, in packages, in debian/copyright. I do think it makes sense both for the website usage and for reuse in other locations (i.e. packages like debian-doc). That being said, we could change the website to make the license available in every single page (maybe through HTML comments at the end of the pages to prevent cluttering them). But I don't believe that would be necessary (or sensible [1]) Regards Javier [1] As it would increase all page's size by 1571 bytes.
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