On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Jérémy Lal <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > saying the author's work is MIT licensed is not enough, > the full text of the license must be there too, as written > in its second paragraph : > > The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be > included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. > > I write this here because i see countless node modules in this case, > whose authors probably believe their software to have a very liberal, > free, and open-source license - but they have de facto no license at all.
FWIW, Fedora has a IMHO common sense policy regarding what to do in this situation. Basically, packagers are supposed to try everything they can to get a copy of the license checked into the source tree (or otherwise provided to us; an e-mail from the author is just as legally valid), but if they can't, it's fine to just add a copy of the license yourself in order to comply with its terms. The long version is here if you're interested: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:LicensingGuidelines#License_Text -T.C. -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
