Quoting Eric Appleman <[email protected]>:
I've never heard of it being kosher to include instructions inside
of a binary rather than included along with it.
Although not strictly a legal interpretation, I would probably look to
take a pragmatic view here.
If someone were to sell a router, and were to include the offer as
part of the web GUI (e.g. in the equivalent of an "about" screen)
instead of as a piece of paper in the box, I would have thought this
would be more than acceptable: the aim of provision of the licence is
one of raising awareness.
Similarly, with Android devices, most I have seen have satisfied the
requirements about inclusion of a copy of the licence text by
including this within the device interface; I would have thought that
putting the offer in the same place would be suitable.
I'd be very interested in other views on this.
(I'd also ask very nicely if people would mind snipping quotations to
which they are responding, so that only the relevant part is included,
to make reading things a little easier?)
Neil
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Neil Brown
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