See: http://hackerboss.com/get-rid-of-templates/

I think we should just adjust it to include a note about the project +
authors in the LICENSE or the README file.



On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Aran Rhee <[email protected]> wrote:

> @Geoff - automatic in the sense of legal attributing only, yes? It looks
> like in the MIT license link, that there should be a copyright line with
> authors and dates in there... In the 2.2 code (compressed or uncompressed,
> there is only the license type, not copyright info)
>
> I am not an expert in this what so ever though, so I could be
> misinterpreting.
>
> We can take this offline to discuss further.
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Geoff Stearns <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> I believe copyright is automatic, so there's no need for a statement like
>> that. It was just free advertising in the past :)
>>
>> Besides, the team is much more than just the three these days :)
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Aran Rhee <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Jens.
>>>
>>> Thanks fort asking. Yes, you can distribute the swfobject library with
>>> your project (modified or not). The original credits need to remain intact.
>>> Other than that, you should be good to go. There used to be a proper
>>> copyright statement in v2.0 / 2.1. I am unsure where that has gone in v2.2.
>>>
>>> Following the previous convention, it should look like this:
>>>
>>> SWFObject v2.2 <http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/>
>>>  Copyright (c) 2007-2010 Geoff Stearns, Michael Williams, and Bobby van
>>> der Sluis
>>> This software is released under the MIT License <
>>> http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php>
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Aran
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 8:26 AM, Jens Remus <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi!
>>>>
>>>> I would like to include SWFObject as-is in my own open-source project
>>>> (Wordpress Plugin) that is licensed under the GPLv2.
>>>>
>>>> Regarding the compatibility of the GPLv2 with the MIT License, there
>>>> should not be any issue:
>>>> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses
>>>>
>>>> I do not plan to make any modifications to the SWFObject source code,
>>>> but I would like to ship its JavaScript file without the accompanying
>>>> files (i.e. not the full contents of the archive and neither the
>>>> archive itself). Is that possible?
>>>>
>>>> What else do I have to take care of? The MIT License usually requires
>>>> a copyright statement, but I did not find any copyright statement in
>>>> the swfobject.js file. Do I need to ship the full MIT License text? I
>>>> plan to add a section to my plugin's documentation that states what
>>>> license my plugin is under and that it uses SWFObject which is under
>>>> the MIT License.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance and keep up the great work,
>>>> Jens
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