The problem with that approach is that if you ever get in legal issues with your software (just a shot in the dark, that probably won't ever happen), nobody will accept "They let me do it this way" legally, unless you have it written by the authors of those libraries, because of the ever-so-wonderful "legalese". So you could get in bigger problems than you already were.<br>
<br>You can always of course just add a reference to enet and a link to its license in case you don't want to "bloat your software with text files".<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Philip Bennefall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:philip@blastbay.com">philip@blastbay.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">I understand this. My question was more along the
lines of whether the approach I have taken is acceptable to Lee, or whether he
feels that it is important to include the actual licensing text. I have
asked similar questions regarding other libraries with the same license and they
have not had a problem with my text, so I just wanted to make sure in this case.
I really don't like to bloat my software with legal disclaimers and licenses if
I can help it, so I avoid the LGPL and BSD style licenses for
instance.</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Another thing I am pondering is whether the
paragraph refers to the source code, or compiled object code as
well.</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Kind regards,</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div><font color="#888888">
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Philip Bennefall</font></div></font><div><div></div><div class="h5">
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<div style="font:10pt arial;background:#e4e4e4"><b>From:</b>
<a title="little.coding.fox@gmail.com" href="mailto:little.coding.fox@gmail.com" target="_blank">Nuno Silva</a> </div>
<div style="font:10pt arial"><b>To:</b> <a title="philip@blastbay.com" href="mailto:philip@blastbay.com" target="_blank">philip@blastbay.com</a> ; <a title="enet-discuss@cubik.org" href="mailto:enet-discuss@cubik.org" target="_blank">Discussion
of the ENet library</a> </div>
<div style="font:10pt arial"><b>Sent:</b> Friday, March 25, 2011 6:37
PM</div>
<div style="font:10pt arial"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ENet-discuss] License
question</div>
<div><br></div>When dealing with license text you must go literal with every
single word. It says you must include the copyright notice _and_ the
permission notice you are reading, so your approach is legally "incorrect". An
easy way to solve this would be to just include a text file with both notices
in your software package, e.g., "Enet.txt".<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Philip Bennefall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:philip@blastbay.com" target="_blank">philip@blastbay.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Hi Lee,</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial">I just had a quick question for you regarding
the ENet license, to make sure I am doing things correctly. With the
following statement:</font></div>
<div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div>
<div><span lang="EN">
<p>The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.</p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial">Do you refer to the source code, or must binary
applications that use ENet include the license? Currently I have a statement
like this in my documentation (including a link to the website):</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="http://enet.bespin.org/" target="_blank"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">The ENet
Project</font></a><br><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">ENet is a rock
solid layer on top of the UDP protocol, optimized especially for high-speed
games. This is what BGT uses to provide its networking
capabilities.</font><br><br>Is this acceptable? Or am I required to add the
full legal text? I much prefer the above notice to the complete
license.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial">Thanks!</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial">Kind regards,</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </p><font color="#888888">
<p><font size="2" face="Arial">Philip
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