Timeline for Proper way to include Copyright information relating to a single Class file
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| Jul 6, 2023 at 7:28 | comment | added | Brandin | "The book gives no license information for the included code" - I think it should be pointed out somewhere, that most likely this means the code is not open source. Even if the author gave you permission to use it -- suppose you put that code into a product and decide to publish your code later with a license such as Apache or MIT. Well, legally you can't do that now, since the author only gave "you" permission to use it, not necessarily for anyone else downstream to do so. This is one reason why standard, well-understood licenses are preferred. | |
| Jul 5, 2023 at 15:43 | vote | accept | ThomasH | ||
| Jul 5, 2023 at 12:18 | answer | added | Maniues | timeline score: 1 | |
| S Jul 5, 2023 at 6:06 | history | suggested | Rohit Gupta | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Corrected typos and added java tag
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| Jul 4, 2023 at 15:49 | comment | added | ThomasH | @Brandin Thanks for your comment. I was under the impression that there might be an already established way to make such a copyright reference. I'm afraid the author wouldn't want to be bothered with such practical issues. I'll wait a bit longer to see if anybody else has a suggestion. | |
| Jul 4, 2023 at 14:52 | comment | added | Brandin | Well, it sounds to me like the permission he gave you informally "to use the code in any way you like" counts as permission to use the code in a shipped binary for commercial purposes. As to how you can precisely interpret the requirement to fulfill the obligation to "retain his copyright" in the binary; I'm not sure that's something we can answer. For a well-known license like MIT and Apache, you would get answers that the community can agree on. But for an informal e-mail exchance or statement like this, it's up to interpretation. If in doubt you could e-mail him/her back and ask again. | |
| S Jul 4, 2023 at 14:03 | review | First questions | |||
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| S Jul 4, 2023 at 14:03 | history | asked | ThomasH | CC BY-SA 4.0 |