general copyright question

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Often, this means that --help or some option advertised by --help (like 
--version or even --license) might spit out the notice.

And, yes, you want the notice and copyright in the documentation, and 
many times even in the source files.  If there's no documentation 
provided with the program, consider including a "license.txt" - or as 
above, spitting out such output with a switch or menu option.

My couple cents, anyway... this is a pretty standard clause and for the 
authors' interpretations (which are what matter most really) you should 
ask them directly.

-[Unknown]


Saaa wrote:
> A lot of open source projects (on dsource) use this clause in their 
> copyright notice:
> 
> ...
> Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
> notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
> documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
> ...
> 
> What exactly does it mean for a binary program to reproduce a copyright?
> 
> What should be written in the documentation?
> Something like:
> readme.txt [
> .. documentation ..
> 
> ??
> 
> < insert copyright from X> ]
> 
> and what if there is no documentation? 
> 
>