At 08:42 AM 7/18/02 -0700, Mike Noyes wrote: >[...] > > Considering that the whole thing consists of a number ~(10 -> 12) > > scripts/C-programs, do I need to put the 'notice' in each one? Or is it > > sufficient to put it in, say, a README, packaged with the rest? > >Jon, >I think it's acceptable to place it in a LICENSE file. Embedded releases >can't practically include full license text, so I think linking is >acceptable. Note: IANAL.
I remember this topic being debated on the Debian lists about a year ago. The question there was a tiny bit different -- some people were arguing that having a single "licenses" file for the distribution as a whole was insufficient to comply with the GPL, and that each individual .deb binary package needed to include an actual copy of the license text (each one that used the GPL, that is; there are other DFSG-compliant licenses, of course). I don't know (or at least don't recall) how this debate played out in principle. I do know that the proposed change to the contents of .deb files actually distributed as part of Debian (there are "unofficial" .deb packages around too) was not made. The distro does include one copy of each of the various DFSG-compliant licenses in its base package set, though; certainly at least the CD-based LEAF versions could manage this (I haven't looked but I bet they already do). I never see the full text of licenses included in the actual source code files themselves, though an accompanying LICENSE file is fairly common with the source packages. -- -----------------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"-------------- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo Palo Alto, California, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
