Re: [License-discuss] Acceptable LICENSE citation

2013-06-09 Thread Nirk Niggler
Chuck, thanks for your reply. I definitely have seen many people just follow option (2) but my current understanding is that it is actually unacceptable for MIT license (regardless of how many people do it). GPL, for example, goes out of the way to say that it is permissible to indicate how to

Re: [License-discuss] Acceptable LICENSE citation

2013-06-09 Thread Lawrence Rosen
in a 55 MPH zone? Are you likely to be arrested for doing so? Will the judge impose a high fine? Don't quote me. /Larry From: Nirk Niggler [mailto:nirk.nigg...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2013 1:18 PM To: license-discuss@opensource.org Subject: Re: [License-discuss] Acceptable

Re: [License-discuss] Acceptable LICENSE citation

2013-06-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi, NN-- On Jun 7, 2013, at 8:40 AM, Nirk Niggler nirk.nigg...@gmail.com wrote: [ ... ] Lots of people are releasing code under the MIT license, which is great (at least they remember to apply a license :) However, I've seen people try to apply it in different ways: 1) just saying

[License-discuss] Acceptable LICENSE citation

2013-06-07 Thread Nirk Niggler
Hello license-discuss! Lots of people are releasing code under the MIT license, which is great (at least they remember to apply a license :) However, I've seen people try to apply it in different ways: 1) just saying License: MIT in a README 2) just saying License: MIT in the source code 3)