Re: Clarification of License issue

> 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:

"Documentation" simply means paper docs, a README, or whatever, assuming
you have those things.  The notice does not need to appear in the binary
itself unless that's the only thing being distributed--in which case the
entire notice must appear.

> 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,

An info-box pointer and a copy of the LICENSE file itself would also suffice.

Regards,
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