Clarification of License issue

[email protected] 20 Oct 2003 08:08:02 UT
Newsgroups gmane.comp.archivers.info-zip
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi all!

I need some advice in a licensing issue of Info-ZIP.

We'd like to use the Info-ZIP Win32 DLL in a commercial software. The LICENSE file says for this point:

> 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
>    notice, definition, disclaimer, and this list of conditions in
>    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

As I'm interpreting that as our app has to show *at least* this in the Info screen:

> Copyright (c) 1990-1999 Info-ZIP.  All rights reserved.
> 
> For the purposes of this copyright and license, "Info-ZIP" is defined as
> the following set of individuals:
> 
> Mark Adler, John Bush, Karl Davis, Harald Denker, Jean-Michel Dubois,
> Jean-loup Gailly, Hunter Goatley, Ian Gorman, Chris Herborth, Dirk Haase,
> Greg Hartwig, Robert Heath, Jonathan Hudson, Paul Kienitz, David Kirschbaum,
> Johnny Lee, Onno van der Linden, Igor Mandrichenko, Steve P. Miller,
> Sergio Monesi, Keith Owens, George Petrov, Greg Roelofs, Kai Uwe Rommel,
> Steve Salisbury, Dave Smith, Christian Spieler, Antoine Verheijen,
> Paul von Behren, Rich Wales, Mike White

which is, unfortunately, a bit too long for an Info message, and keeps our client from approving the usage of Info-ZIP, instead favouring a commercial product (Greenleafs ArchiveLib) :-(
The question is, would it suffice to include something like

> ZIP-Library:
>     (c) 1990-1999 Info-ZIP"
>     <http://www.info-zip.org>

into that Info box, include only the LICENSE file w/o mentioning at any other place, or how should the Info-ZIP[/BSD] license be read in this case? Is there an "official" guideline for this issue?

Thanks for help and advice!

Martin