Yes. There seems little value in unqualified people debating if it is legally required.
The mainstream FOSS licences all predate minification and seem to have been written with compiled languages in mind, not interpreted languages. Most have language that requires the licence in the source version, but not the binary version. Deciding whether minified JavaScript is technically or in spirit a binary form seems like something best left to experts.
My conscience would certainly be clear if we only had a licence in our source distribution.
Luke
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Marc A. Pelletier marc@uberbox.org wrote:
On 03/05/2013 12:22 PM, Tyler Romeo wrote:
it is nonetheless *legally required* to do so, regardless of the technical aspect of it
I think that determination needs to be made by Counsel, not on a guess. I've quite some knowledge of copyright myself, and I know enough that the matter is subtle enough that this declaration is, at best, an oversimplification that cannot possibly reflect reality.
-- Marc
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