Joshua Baergen wrote:
The reasons that this system was chosen were correctness and
maintainability. Many of these essentially use the good old MIT
license with various companies' and/or individuals' copyrights at the
top, as you have stated. However, the MIT license does refer to the
copyrights within the license script itself, and many of the licenses
have been slightly altered to include a company's name directly. I'm
no lawyer, but to me this means that the license does indeed include
the copyright. (Note that I'm not intricately familiar with other
licenses that often have copyrights associated, so I don't know if MIT
is unique). If this isn't correct, I'd be very happy to switch all
the packages that use various forms of the MIT license over to it
instead and you can blissfully ignore the next paragraph. However,
I'd rather be on the safe/correct side than save a few MB that have to
be downloaded once.
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Joshua Baergen
I'd still like clarification on this. I fully realize that we've been
using generalized placeholders for a long time, but that doesn't really
matter in the end if it's not legal.
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