[License-discuss] Open source license with obligation to display an attribution?

Thorsten Glaser tg at mirbsd.de
Tue Dec 4 19:13:45 UTC 2018


Kevin P. Fleming dixit:

>It's even simpler than that: what if someone finds a bit of the code
>from the project (maybe a function or two, or an entire source file)
>interesting and would like to use them in another project? What if
>that other project doesn't have a user interface of any kind? Licenses
>which require attribution in the user interface (regardless of the
>form it may take) restrict the ability to reuse the code.

That’s also true. Think of people wishing to create coffee cups with
excerpts (code or documentation) on it, too ;)


> On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 12:31 PM Thorsten Glaser <tg at mirbsd.de> wrote:

Please don’t top-post and full-quote, thanks!

bye,
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