On 2010-04-12 17:02 PM, Malcolm Greene wrote:
Looking for advice on what Python license and copyright text to include and where to include it when selling a commercial (Windows based) Python based application.
The requirement is fairly broad; there are a number of things you could do to satisfy the requirement. Largely, it's up to you as long as the full license text is accessible somewhere. I will provide personal, entirely unofficial recommendations below, though.
By license text and copyrights I am refering to the text on this page: PYTHON SOFTWARE FOUNDATION LICENSE VERSION 2 http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6.5/license/ By "where to include it" I mean: 1. What Python license text/copyright text should I place in our printed user manual?
The whole license and history text, parts A and B.
2. What Python license text/copyright text should I include in our online documentation?
The whole thing.
3. What Python license text/copyright text should I include in product's license text file?
Have a licenses\ directory with a LICENSE_Python.txt containing the whole license text. Have other LICENSE_<foo>.txt files for any other third-party libraries you use, like the GUI toolkit.
4. What Python license text/copyright text should I include in application's splash screen and about dialog boxes?
Link to the part of the online documentation that lists the third-party software that you use.
-- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
