mdbootstrap / mdb4-angular-ui-kit

Angular Bootstrap with Material Design - Powerful and free UI KIT
https://mdbootstrap.com/docs/angular/
MIT License
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License is PDF and copyright notice missing #8

Open wolfganggallo opened 4 years ago

wolfganggallo commented 4 years ago

I'm submitting a...


[ ] Regression (a behavior that used to work and stopped working in a new release)
[ ] Bug report  
[ ] Performance issue
[ ] Feature request
[x] Documentation issue or request
[ ] Support request
[x] Other... Please describe:

Current behavior

Your license is a PDF with just a license name and no text. It can not be parsed by GitHub and Open Source management tools.

Also no copyright notice is given in your license text. Since the MIT license requires the preservation of the copyright notice at distribution, you are making it hard to impossible to use your library legally in Germany where copyright can not be waivered. I'm not a lawyer, this is just what they tell me ;-)

Expected behavior

Your license is in raw text format and includes the license text and copyright notice. Maybe this link helps: https://www.disclaimergenerator.net/copyright-notices/

Minimal reproduction of the problem with instructions

See https://github.com/mdbootstrap/Angular-Bootstrap-with-Material-Design/blob/85dee4e97da4d2735c8f371816d2a2628af2ca17/license.pdf

What is the motivation / use case for changing the behavior?

A big company's compliance department is refusing to allow the use of an application using your library because your copyright notice is missing.