on 12/13/99 9:37 PM, Bob Tanner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am about to release a project that make heavy use of ecs and I want to know
> what I need to do to be compliant with the licensing.
>
> The project will be open source, I am not sure what flavor yet. But I would
> like to know what I need to distribute in order to play the open source game
> right in regards to the Java Apache Project.
>
> I thought this might be a faq, but did not find it.
>
> I have include the ecs/COPYING as myproject/COPYING.ecs is this correct?
>
> Do I need to include the COPYING in the source, like the the ecs source code
> does? OR does the my source contain the verbage from whatever open source
> license I choose?
>
> In myproject/README I appened the ecs/README.
>
> In myproject/AUTHORS I give glowing thanks to Stephan Nagy, Jon S. Stevens,
> and Vadim Tkachenko.
>
> Answers would be nice, but a url to an FAQ or HOWTO would be even better.
Yea, it would, but I don't think that there is one since each case is
different. With the BSD Style license, you have a lot of freedom, much more
than with the GPL or other licenses. Essentially, you just need to give
credit where credit is due. I would also thank the people of this mailing
list (ie: you as well!) for help with the software...a few people on this
list have contributed bug fixes and feature additions...they deserve credit
as well.
I don't think that you need to append the ecs/README into your README. All
you need to do is include the part in the ECS license that says something
like "This software was developed using Element..."
I also think that you should include links to the ECS website
<http://java.apache.org/ecs/> to tell people where you can get the software
and maybe a brief description of why you decided to use it.
All in all, I think that what you have done is more than fine.
thanks,
-jon
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