[jQuery] Re: jquery license - what do my company have to do

2009-08-21 Thread Antoine Blanchard

ok thx for your answers. it helped a lot.

On 20 août, 21:25, Stephan Beal sgb...@googlemail.com wrote:
 On Aug 20, 3:51 pm, Antoine Blanchard antoine...@gmail.com wrote:

  Do we need to write a line in our docu saying: use jquery,..., which
  is under MIT license?

 The MIT license is explained very briefly and clearly at:

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License

 You don't need to do anything special except accept the fact that you
 needn't do anything special. That is in stark contrast to the GPL
 license, which can optionally be used with jQuery.

 The documentation clause is from the BSD family of licenses and is
 quite interesting, because if you simply redistribute the original
 source files you are already complying with it by including those
 source files in the documentation and/or other materials provided
 with the distribution. As long as the source file IS part of the
 distribution, you don't need to add it to your docs or About dialog
 because of the and/OR part.


[jQuery] Re: jquery license - what do my company have to do

2009-08-20 Thread Jonathan Vanherpe (T T NV)


Antoine Blanchard wrote:

Hi everyone,

For the latest project I have lead (which is a java web project) I
have included some jquery,jqueryui and 1 or 2 jquery plugins, knowing
that the MIT license allow us to use it even for commercial use. Now
that the v1 is almost done. We are wondering what exactly we have to
do to be legal.
MIT license says: on the condition that the license is distributed
with that software.
what does that mean exactly?
Do we need to write a line in our docu saying: use jquery,..., which
is under MIT license?
Do we have to write on the pages with our copyright that we use jquery
with the little ©?
Do we have to do something else?
Thanks for the explanations.

Antoine



if you leave the comment on top of your js file intact, you'll be fine.

--
Jonathan Vanherpe - Tallieu  Tallieu NV - jonat...@tnt.be


[jQuery] Re: jquery license - what do my company have to do

2009-08-20 Thread Stephan Beal

On Aug 20, 3:51 pm, Antoine Blanchard antoine...@gmail.com wrote:
 Do we need to write a line in our docu saying: use jquery,..., which
 is under MIT license?

The MIT license is explained very briefly and clearly at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License

You don't need to do anything special except accept the fact that you
needn't do anything special. That is in stark contrast to the GPL
license, which can optionally be used with jQuery.

The documentation clause is from the BSD family of licenses and is
quite interesting, because if you simply redistribute the original
source files you are already complying with it by including those
source files in the documentation and/or other materials provided
with the distribution. As long as the source file IS part of the
distribution, you don't need to add it to your docs or About dialog
because of the and/OR part.