Hi, On 4/6/06, Jan Niklas Fingerle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "The ... boilerplate ... is licensed und an MIT-style license". Great. > Now, if I start developing code on top of this and want to release > the result as (MIT style) open source, I don't have a problem except > one: whose name to put in the copyright notice. Turbogears' license > says "Copyright (c) 2005 Kevin Dangoor and contributors" and has a > contributors file. Should I put something like that in my project as > well, additionalle to my own name? I mean, the project contains > boilerplate code that comes under a (MIT style) license which states > "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included > in all copies or substantial portions of the Software." > > Now, it all comes down to: Is the boilerplate code considered as > "substantial portions"? The following statement ...
I would not consider the quickstart templates to be substantial by any definition of "substantial". Freely use the quickstart without worrying about including the TG copyright notice in your own project. > While we're at it: How about the 20 minutes wiki. I'd like to build a > project on top of that code. The same questions apply here... The 20 minute wiki is so little code that to produce anything useful, it would be changed beyond recognition by the time you're done. Feel free to use that under the MIT terms and if you feel like the 20 minute wiki remains a substantial portion of your app, you can include the copyright notice and license if you wish. You're not going to find me sending cease and desist letters to people who use the 20 minute wiki code :) Kevin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
