Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>>1) If we just ship the PostgreSQL binaries in our product(without
>>source code), do we need to include the BSD licence text anywhere?
>
> Yes. The license says "... provided that the above copyright notice and
> this paragraph and the following two paragraphs appear in all copies."
> Note that it doesn't say "provided that the notice is displayed in
> annoying ways", but it needs to be accessible in reasonable ways.
Which of the following count as "accessible in a reasonable way"?
1. in a separate text file, by itself (ala GPL's COPYING), but quite
deep within several levels of subdirectories (e.g. under bin/ or
etc/misc/license/).
2. in a binary (e.g. postgres.exe), that is, we modified the source code
slightly so that the copyright text is embedded in the final executable.
The executable is not compressed, so a "strings postgres" command could
view the copyright text.
3. in a separate program file (which is included along with postgres in
the distribution), in the Help > About menu or the splash screen, e.g.
"Portions of this program are licensed under the BSD License:
PostgreSQL, ..."
4. Only the URL to the license text is displayed, e.g.
http://www.mydomain.com/etc/license/BSD.txt.
--
dave
