Raphael Neider wrote: > Well, even BSD includes a clause, forcing the binary to output the > license: > """ > Redistributions in binary form *must reproduce* the above copyright > notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the > documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. > """ > > This seems to be pretty useless for binary library code, due to lack of > some kind of main program. On the other hand, wiping this phrase out > will render the first paragraph useless: > > Well, it depends how you understand the "and/or". I understand it more as "or", which means that it is enough to reproduce the copyright in the documentation.
> Additionally, <ORGANIZATION> (see link above) should probably be > replaced with <OWNER> (which in turn will become <AUTHOR>)... > > If we replace the <ORGANIZATION> with <AUTHOR>, then the copyright notices for all authors should be reproduced, which is a problem. Maybe we (sdcc developers) can say that we are an organization (perhaps "sdcc developers community") and use it in place of <ORGANIZATION>? ... > Two question remain: Does this reflect general opinion? And finally: > Which license fulfils this? > > There is an other license, which is still less restrictive and I already used it in sdcc (see support/Util/dbuf.*): the zlib/libpng license. (see http://www.opensource.org/licenses/zlib-license.php) If anybody knows a license which covers the sdcc library needs, pleas let us know. I think that we (sdcc developers) should decide to use only one license for the whole sdcc library in order to make the sdcc users life easier. Borut Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Sdcc-user mailing list Sdcc-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sdcc-user
