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Don Clugston dac at nospam.com.au
Mon Nov 20 03:02:23 PST 2006


Kirk McDonald wrote:
> Don Clugston wrote:
>> Kirk McDonald wrote:
>>> I would appreciate it if (in the future) you included the text of the 
>>> license at the top of the source files (in a plain comment, not a 
>>> doc-comment).
>>
>> I really don't want to include the full text of the license. Would a 
>> link suffice?
>>
> 
> Probably. If you look through the Pyd sources, you'll see that all of 
> them include the text of the MIT license at the top. Putting the actual 
> text of the license in there makes it that much more explicit. It's just 
> a style thing, though, so I won't stress too much about it.
> 
>>> Second, Pyd itself is released under the MIT license. If Wikipedia's 
>>> rundown of the differences between the two is correct, then to comply 
>>> with the BSD license on Nameof I just need to include "meta.Nameof 
>>> and meta.Demangle are copyright (C) 2005-2006 Don Clugston" in Pyd's 
>>> docs. Is this correct?
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>> Really, all I want to do with the license is to provide reassurance 
>> that there will never be legal issues associated with the code. From 
>> what I've heard, BSD/MIT licenses are better than public domain for this.
> 
> I agree. It's why Pyd is MIT licensed. :-)
> 

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