| From: | Alex Satrapa <alex(at)lintelsys(dot)com(dot)au> |
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| To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: postgreSQL licenseing |
| Date: | 2004-02-26 22:21:52 |
| Message-ID: | 403E7180.5050706@lintelsys.com.au |
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David Garamond wrote:
> Which of the following count as "accessible in a reasonable way"?
The usual means that I have seen of making copyright licences accessible are to:
1) List all copyright clauses in the manual, under a single chapter. This is effectively an inventory of the licenced works used in the product.
2) List all copyright clauses in a file such as "licences.txt", which is also an inventory of licenced works used in the product.
3) Display all copyright clauses in the log file of a daemon.
4) Display the copyright clauses in the scrolling portion of a splash screen (ick!) or in the Help->About screen of a GUI
Having the licence hidden somewhere - eg as unused strings in a binary - doesn't seem to me to be "accessible in a reasonable way". Would you feel it was reasonable for a vendor to publish the instruction manual in this way?
Just by two bits worth
Alex Satrapa
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