Peter N Lewis wrote:
At 10:23 +0100 21/3/06, Frank Heckenbach wrote:
Peter N Lewis wrote:
So that probably means notices in the About box. It's not clear how the version information for the bundle, which includes a tiny amount of space for a copyright, would be affected - it couldn't include it, yet it might be interpreted that it must include it.
I'm not sure what you mean by the latter. What do you mean by "version information for the bundle"? If it's something that the program displays, then yes, it seems it must include the LGPL copyright (but why couldn't it?), otherwise I don't think it must.
Thats why its gray. The program includes an info string which is a copyright notice, which is displayed by the system (Finder) in response to the Get Info for the application. Technically, its not displayed "by the program", but it is part of the program, and its a copyright notice, and its displayed as the program. But it's very small, not enough room for multiple copyright notices.
Well, I'm not familiar with MacOS issues, but I suppose there must be some kind of solution. What do others (free or non-free) do if there are multiple authors. (Though one hears a lot about Apple's "centralistic" approach, I don't suppose they allow only software with a single (entity as) copyright holder!?) Perhaps a pointer to a README or other file that contains detailed copyright statements?
Mind you, at least there is no equivalent to the OpenSSL press release debacle.
Which debacle?
They require two different notices to be included in any press release:
This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit. http://www.openssl.org/
This product includes cryptographic software written by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com)
Ah, well, that's the infamous "obnoxious BSD advertising clause" (see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#OriginalBSD). The original BSD license had introduced it. Meanwhille, after some lobbying by FSF and other groups, it was replaced by a license without this clause, for the Berkeley distribution and many other projects, but of course, there are still some with that clause around. It probably doesn't affect only OpenSSL.
Frank