What license/copyright text to include and where to include itwhen selling a commercial Python based application?
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From: Robert Kern on 12 Apr 2010 18:20 On 2010-04-12 17:02 PM, Malcolm Greene wrote: > Looking for advice on what Python license and copyright text to > include and where to include it when selling a commercial > (Windows based) Python based application. The requirement is fairly broad; there are a number of things you could do to satisfy the requirement. Largely, it's up to you as long as the full license text is accessible somewhere. I will provide personal, entirely unofficial recommendations below, though. > By license text and copyrights I am refering to the text on this > page: > > PYTHON SOFTWARE FOUNDATION LICENSE VERSION 2 > http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6.5/license/ > > By "where to include it" I mean: > > 1. What Python license text/copyright text should I place in our > printed user manual? The whole license and history text, parts A and B. > 2. What Python license text/copyright text should I include in > our online documentation? The whole thing. > 3. What Python license text/copyright text should I include in > product's license text file? Have a licenses\ directory with a LICENSE_Python.txt containing the whole license text. Have other LICENSE_<foo>.txt files for any other third-party libraries you use, like the GUI toolkit. > 4. What Python license text/copyright text should I include in > application's splash screen and about dialog boxes? Link to the part of the online documentation that lists the third-party software that you use. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco
From: python on 14 Apr 2010 11:33
Thank you Robert! Regards, Malcolm ----- Original message ----- From: "Robert Kern" <robert.kern(a)gmail.com> To: python-list(a)python.org Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:20:54 -0500 Subject: Re: What license/copyright text to include and where to include it when selling a commercial Python based application? On 2010-04-12 17:02 PM, Malcolm Greene wrote: > Looking for advice on what Python license and copyright text to > include and where to include it when selling a commercial > (Windows based) Python based application. The requirement is fairly broad; there are a number of things you could do to satisfy the requirement. Largely, it's up to you as long as the full license text is accessible somewhere. I will provide personal, entirely unofficial recommendations below, though. > By license text and copyrights I am refering to the text on this > page: > > PYTHON SOFTWARE FOUNDATION LICENSE VERSION 2 > http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6.5/license/ > > By "where to include it" I mean: > > 1. What Python license text/copyright text should I place in our > printed user manual? The whole license and history text, parts A and B. > 2. What Python license text/copyright text should I include in > our online documentation? The whole thing. > 3. What Python license text/copyright text should I include in > product's license text file? Have a licenses\ directory with a LICENSE_Python.txt containing the whole license text. Have other LICENSE_<foo>.txt files for any other third-party libraries you use, like the GUI toolkit. > 4. What Python license text/copyright text should I include in > application's splash screen and about dialog boxes? Link to the part of the online documentation that lists the third-party software that you use. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list |