Clarification of License issue
[email protected] 20 Oct 2003 08:08:02 UT
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.archivers.info-zip |
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| 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