On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 11:46 AM, Pablo Rozas Larraondo <p.rozas.larrao...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you Lutz, then, if I understand this right, new projects containing > parts of Go code have to include the original Go BSD license. > > There are a couple of aspects that remain unclear to me: > > - The copyright notice, list of conditions and disclaimer have to be > included in every file of the project, or just the ones that contain > snippets of Go code?
(I am not a lawyer.) The copyright notice does not have to be included in every file of the project. It only has to be included in each file that contains a copy of the Go source code. > - How the new authors are acknowledged? Would something like "Copyright (c) > 2009 The Go and project X Authors." be appropriate? Or is it better/possible > to add a second Copyright notice? Add a second copyright notice, if you want one. > We want to release a new open source project but licensing aspects are > totally new for us. Any help or references to similar cases that we can > learn from, would be really helpful. I expect there is plenty of stuff on the web. Modifying and reusing BSD licensed code is very common. Ian > On Wednesday, May 2, 2018 at 7:10:44 PM UTC+10, Lutz Horn wrote: >> >> Go is BSD licensed (https://golang.org/LICENSE). This is an easy license: >> >> > Copyright (c) 2009 The Go Authors. All rights reserved. >> > >> > Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without >> > modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: >> > >> > * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, >> > this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. >> >> So you must retain the copyright notice ("Copyright (c) 2009 The Go >> Authors.") and the disclaimer. You can then license your code any way you >> like. >> >> Lutz > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
