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Re: setup.exe opening page graphic


On Sep  1 09:26, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Aug 31 12:48, Warren Young wrote:
> > Lacking any recommendation, I would have gone with some CC variant.
> > I'll look into FAL first now.
> > 
> > If it turns out that I still like CC better, I'll check for GPL
> > compatibility.  I can already rule out all the "Attribution"
> > variants, for the same reason 4-clause BSD is incompatible, right?
> 
> BSD 4-clause is really not ok.  What's ok is a license which grants the
> right to copy, yada, yada, yada, if the license doesn't require us to
> add the attribution to all the affected boilerplates.
> 
> I'm not an expert in attribution requirements, but in our case that
> means, if you choose some attribution license, it should be one which
> allows us to keep the attribution in the sources only.  For setup.exe,
> for instance, that would be the setup.exe CONTRIBUTORS file, and I would
> add you to the affected ChangeLog entries.  There would be no "(C) for
> the icon art: Warren Young" in the splash screen.
> 
> Having said that, you would get that for free with the GPL anyway :)

Reminder to self:  If Warren chooses a non-GPL license, add a matching
license file to the setup sources.


Corinna

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