general copyright question

[Mike Parker]

Mike Parker wrote:
> 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?
> 
> Read that clause carefully. The copyright notice, the list of conditions 
> and the disclaimer should all be included in the documentation or other 
> materials. You don't need to output a string, as suggested in another 
> post, nor do you need to reproduce the copyright for every file used. 
> With both source and binary distributions practice to include a 
> license.txt that contains the required text, i.e. one file containing 
> the complete header found at the top of each source file. That meets the 
> requirements fine.

/practice/ = it is common practice