library license

Carlos Santander csantander619 at gmail.com
Wed May 24 05:06:34 PDT 2006


Daniel Keep escribió:
> Standard disclaimer: IANAL (I am not a lawyer)
> 
> I believe the terms of the BSD are basically: "do whatever you like,
> just make sure you attribute the original source in both source and binary."
> 
> Looking at the zlib license, it's mostly the same except that it doesn't
> have the second BSD clause:
> 
> "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."
> 
> Nor does it have the non-endorsement clause.
> 
> So I don't think the zlib license would be compatible.  The safest thing
> to do would just be to distribute the changed version under BSD as well.
>  If you really *really* want to apply the zlib license, then consult a
> lawyer.
> 
> 	-- Daniel Keep
> 

No, I don't really *really* want to, it was just personal preference. Anyway, 
thanks for that, I'll keep the same license, then.

-- 
Carlos Santander Bernal



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