For thoughts: fair license
Wilson, Andrew
andrew.wilson at intel.com
Thu May 5 17:12:54 UTC 2005
James Pye wrote:
> The exercise and enjoyment of the rights granted by authorship
> is authorized provided that this instrument is retained with
> substantial portions of the works in a good faith effort to
> notify any entity that uses the works of this instrument.
Admirable for its brevity! However, in a web services context, the
requirement to "notify any entity that uses the works" could
certainly be construed to require a banner notice on every view
of a page served by covered code -- perhaps not what you intended.
You might consider falling back to a specific requirement to
reproduce the notice in source code and product documentation.
Andy Wilson
Intel Open Source Technology Center
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