[Python-Dev] Mesenne Twister copyright notice

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Martin v. L=F6wis wrote:
> M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
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>> The usual way to deal with this is to include a .txt/.doc file in the
>> module directory where the module is placed. Examples are the LICENSE.=
txt
>> file and the various .doc files we already have in the std lib directo=
ry.
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> Can you give a few examples? I could not find a file LICENSE.txt (you=20
> probably meant LICENSE), and no .txt or .doc file I checked was relevan=
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> to licensing.

Have a look at the /usr/local/lib/python2.2/ dir. The LICENSE.txt
file has the Python copyright notice.

profile.doc has the license for the profiler.

>> I'd suggest to include a twister.txt file together with the module
>> which then includes the copyright notice.
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> My concern is that people who produce binary distributions will have to=
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> include this text file in their distribution as well. People who embed=20
> Python (in a way that includes _random.c) will have to include the text=
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> file in their applications.
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> Do we really want this?

If that's what the licenses want, there's no way to drive around
this I guess. Note that people redistributing the code can also
take these .txt files and add them to their application documentation
to meet the license requirements.

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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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