On Wednesday, March 27, 2013 10:14:00 AM UTC-7, Isaac Schlueter wrote: > > I had no idea there were so many experienced IP lawyers on this > mailing list! How lucky we are! It's amazing that you all found time > to learn JavaScript, what with going to law school, passing the bar, > and then becoming familiar with the massive libraries of case-law on > this subject! > > Sadly, I'm not a lawyer, just a simple programmer. So I'm not an > expert on these matters, and as a non-expert, I'm not really > comfortable encoding strong opinions in npm on the subject. This way, > npm is a tool, and humans can work out their preferences using it, > however they like. > > Depending on who you ask, to be valid/enforceable, a license must be > one or more of the following: > > 1. declared in every file > 2. declared in any file > 3. declared somewhere in a file along with the source > 4. mentioned by the author, ever, in any context (even verbally) > 5. mentioned along with a link to the full text > 6. mentioned by name > 7. exist in a database of osi-approved licenses > 8. exist in the author's head, even if never mentioned, linked, or > printed anywhere else > 9. differentiate between variants of the name (ie, "BSD" is not ok, > but "BSD-2-clause" is) > 10. Nothing. OSS/Free Software licenses aren't actually enforceable. > > Yes, all of these are real statements that real people have made to > me, very confident that they were correct. Some of those people were > lawyers. Most were just programmers playing pretend. But as a > non-legal-expert myself, I have a hard time telling the difference > between a good lawyer, a bad lawyer, and a duck in a lawyer costume. > > npm has a "license" field, and the common pattern is to also put a > LICENSE (or LICENCE, for imperials) file in the root of your project. > Do whatever you want. I'm not going to get more involved than that. > > For me, if you send me a pull req with the same BSD license that I put > on all my code, I'll accept it without question. > Fwiw, options 1-6 are all acceptable methods of receiving a license from a copyright holder to use their work.
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