Closed kravemir closed 4 years ago
I would also appreciate a dedicated license file. The BSD 3-clause license requires binary distributions to include the license:
- Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
This means a license file must be added by binary package maintainers if you do not already provide it.
Closing, it was addressed.
Conventionally this file is LICENSE
(ends in SE
) not LICENCE
(ends in CE
).
It's a standard to include
LICENSE
orCOPYING
file to indicate users about LICENSE of the project. From README it looks like it's usingBSD 3-clause licence
, but it's good practice to explicitly state it in separate file calledLICENSE
orCOPYING
.Also, list item
BSD 3-clause licence
pointing at some license, isn't a clear legal statement about project licensing. It's more like a mention, thatBSD 3-clause licence
exists. It doesn't mean, that project is licensed underBSD 3-clause licence
.In order not to worry about possible legal issues in future, I would pick only libraries with explicit statement about licensing.