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How to include copyright notices in an open source project by bluewhale_ in c/opensource@lemmy.ml

[-] bluewhale_@lemmy.ml 1 points 20 hours ago

Thanks! I had not found this resource before.

How to include copyright notices in an open source project by bluewhale_ in c/opensource@lemmy.ml

[-] bluewhale_@lemmy.ml 2 points 20 hours ago

Okay thanks, this seems informative! I'll take a closer look when I have time.

How to include copyright notices in an open source project by bluewhale_ in c/opensource@lemmy.ml

[-] bluewhale_@lemmy.ml 1 points 20 hours ago

Thanks! So if I simply use pip to get some libraries for my project, do I need to include the licenses (e.g. MIT) somewhere in my source code?

How about if I statically link them by building a executable that contains everything in a single file, so the user doesn't have to install Python and all the libraries separately?

How to include copyright notices in an open source project by bluewhale_ in c/opensource@lemmy.ml

[-] bluewhale_@lemmy.ml 1 points 20 hours ago

Right, I guess the licenses don't typically give exact instructions on where to put it etc and the requirements can be met in multiple ways. I guess I'm just too stuck trying to understand what's the typical way people do these things in their projects. :'D

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How to include copyright notices in an open source project (lemmy.ml)

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Say I'm writing a small GPLv3 licensed Python script that I want to release publicly. It would use a few MIT licensed libraries and maybe also some chunks of code from some MIT licensed projects.

As per the MIT license conditions I would have to include the MIT license text in my project. So how would that be done properly? And how about other licenses that require the license text to be included?

Sorry if this has already been answered a million times. I'm relatively new to this stuff and I find the licenses really hard to understand despite my attempts. I tried to also use some other open source projects as examples, but most of them don't seem to include the license texts anywhere but the readme files at least seem to state which libraries they use.