Gary Maxwell wrote:
>>> I know about including the license.txt requirement but i was wondering is
>>> there anything else?

To keep a list of the copyright holders/licenses makes a product
easier to manage.

>>Nope. Although you should rather ask a lawyer about legal issues.

However, a lawyer is not required free software.

> Along the same lines, there are other open source software modules
> included in libcurl. A brief scan reveals the following at a minimum:
> inet_ntop.c, inet_pton.c: Internet Software Consortium
> krb4.c, krb5.c, security.c: Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (with further enhancements by Daniel)
> md5.c: RSA Data Security, Inc.
>
> Although all of these can be freely used, it would be keeping in
> the spirit (and letter) of these licenses to include their attribution
> and copyright notices in the COPYING file and on the online license
> page (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/copyright.html).
>
> What does everyone think?

It really should be done.
Received on 2008-03-12