Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:24:24AM +0200, Henri Sivonen wrote: >> (My question is not Debian-related, but I figured the people who know >> the answer read this list.) >> >> The usual interpretation (seen in the list archives) of the MIT/expat >> license seems to be the that the copyright notice needs to be retained >> in the source but does not have to be displayed by binaries. >> >> The license does not say that the binaries do not constitute a copy of >> "the Software". What's the basis of the interpretation and that the >> copyright notices do not need to be grepped from the source and stuffed >> in an about box or similarly placed on binaries? > > The copyright notice does need to be included with the binaries. On > Debian systems it is placed in /usr/share/doc/$package/copyright. This > isn't a particularly strange or restrictive thing to require...
This is different from the requirement of some licenses that a notice be displayed on the console, or in a dialog box, when the program is run. I think this is what the OP was afraid of. -- M�ns Rullg�rd [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
