Re: Notice of MIT License violation by Roberto Foglietta

Hi,

On Mon, Apr 27, 2026 at 03:53:15PM +0200, Ellie via busybox wrote:
> On 4/27/26 7:54 AM, Kang-Che Sung via busybox wrote:
> > I'm not a lawyer, but I think it's good to inform you that the MIT
> > license does not require attribution in generated binaries.
> "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
> all copies or substantial portions of the Software."
> 
> That's the quote in question, isn't it? Where does that say that it no
> longer applies to generated binaries?
> 
> (When I include MIT dependencies myself I tend to interpret it as notice
> both in the source and at runtime, since I personally can't make much sense
> of it. So I tend to go with what I hope will avoid me trouble, as a
> completely uninformed person. Needless to say, please don't interpret
> anything I say as legal advice.)

I guess if you delete the interactive banner message you need to provide
the same information by other means (documentation, etc.). In this case
the year range "2015-2019" does not exist anymore in that source file,
so it will be difficult for provide that original intact copyright string.

What's also bad they modified the code but didn't update the printed
version strings, so now there's two "jdupes" that report the same version
to user but have different code.

A.