Including a ZLib third-party source code in a Modified BSD Licensed Project
David Woolley
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Mon Aug 30 16:25:52 UTC 2010
Antonio Ragagnin wrote:
>
> At the moment, in the LICENSE.txt i've adden these lines:
>
> Copyright (c) 2010, <MY-name>
That's not true. Somewhere you need a copyright notice for all the
copyright owners. Where there are a large number this tends to be done
by something like:
Copyright © 2010, Your name and others (see xxxx.txt for full list)
> This software contains and uses the <THIRD-product-name> source code and
> that's under ZLib License.
If this is a binary distribution, the licence is compatible, you
probably won't need this unless it is a condition of the other licence.
If this is a source distribution, you will normally need to include
the full licence text and make sure the scope of each licence is clear.
> <THIRD-product-name> is a <what-THIRD-product-does> and it encloses
> all the source files under the folders src/org/<third-sourcecode-path>
> All other rights are reserved.
I don't think you understand "rights". Rights means the right to copy,
to publicly perform, etc. It has nothing to do with who is able to grant
those rights.
>
> PS. I really don't know where to ask these questions!
> thx!
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