Please remove HttpCore dependency on the annotations CC licensing because it
unnecessarily complicates life – legal wise.
From HttpCore license file:
"If you distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, or publicly digitally
perform the Work or any Derivative Works or Collective Works, You must keep
intact all copyright notices for the Work and provide, reasonable to the medium
or means You are utilizing: (i) the name of the Original Author (or pseudonym,
if applicable) if supplied, and/or (ii) if the Original Author and/or Licensor
designate another party or parties (e.g. a sponsor institute, publishing
entity, journal) for attribution in Licensor's copyright notice, terms of
service or by other reasonable means, the name of such party or parties; the
title of the Work if supplied; to the extent reasonably practicable, the
Uniform Resource Identifier, if any, that Licensor specifies to be associated
with the Work, unless such URI does not refer to the copyright notice or
licensing information for the Work; and in the case of a Derivative Work, a
credit identifying the use of the Work in the Derivative Work (e.g., "French
translation of the Work by Original Author," or "Screenplay based on original
Work by Original Author"). Such credit may be implemented in any reasonable
manner; provided, however, that in the case of a Derivative Work or Collective
Work, at a minimum such credit will appear where any other comparable
authorship credit appears and in a manner at least as prominent as such other
comparable authorship credit."
Does anyone know what "publicly perform", or "publicly digitally perform" the
Work or any Derivative Works or Collective Works actually mean for software?
This wording was clearly drafted having a song or a painting in mind.
If I use the package in a public facing website or web service am I required to
display an attribution for this? What if I use HttpCore server as a public http
endpoint and I don't want to disclose this for security reasons; do I still
need to give attribution to the annotations alone? seems ridicules..
BTW, nothing here about the annotations themselves, or giving credit when
distributing HttpCore just that the CC licensing requirements make no scene for
this project.
CC self states that it is not suited for software:
"Can I apply a Creative Commons license to software?" -
https://creativecommons.org/faq/
Alternatively, please ask the authors to offer this under the ASL2 license
which is well understood.
