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Re: license question

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:48:55 +0100 (CET)

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Brian Dessent wrote:

> Again, the MIT/X license has no BSD style advertising clause. You aren't
> required to assemble any such list of contributors, unless you are feeling
> charitable.
>
> The only thing you have to do to satisfy the MIT/X license is if you choose
> to give someone the source, not remove the existing copyright notice.
> That's a passive thing, it's not an active thing.

I think the paragraph that he is trying to follow is this:

   Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
   purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
   copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.

(quote from the COPYING file)

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Received on 2008-03-12