That sounds much more sensible than including "COPYING.txt" and "COPYING_LESSER.txt" everywhere. Unless someone tells me that it's a bad idea, I'll switch packages to refer to LGPL by reference.
At Fri, 21 Feb 2014 11:45:50 -0500, Neil Van Dyke wrote: > For at least third-party packages (though you might want something > trickier for core Racket)... > > I'm not a lawyer, but I figured that, for most packages I author, I > probably don't *need* to include the full text of a well-known license > (e.g., LGPLv3). Instead, I give the copyright notice, state that the > license using the recognized full name of the license (and a URL), and > then some disclaimers. > > I include this legal info in metadata in "info.rkt", and McFly makes it > appear automatically in the documentation (with, e.g., "LGPLv3" at the > top of the document, and the free-form legal blurb at the end of the > document). Example at: http://www.neilvandyke.org/racket-roomba/ > > I've started to also add a one-line copyright notice at the top of each > source file in the package, something like ";; Copyright Neil Van Dyke. > See file info.rkt." (I might have to move to a legal notice comment > block at the top of each file, but I'd really rather not. Notice blocks > don't seem to be a barrier to abuse anyway.) > > Neil V. > > _________________________ > Racket Developers list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
