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MIT license does not include a copyright statement

Open hmvp opened this issue 8 years ago • 1 comments

Which makes the text "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software." a bit weird. And thus it might be impossible to comply?

I am not an legal expert. And I don't like all the hoops I need to jump through to add copyright statements etc to comply. But I want to comply when using this in a product...

Most other projects start the license file with: something like "Copyright (c) 2015 The winapi-rs Developers"

hmvp avatar Dec 15 '17 14:12 hmvp

IANAL & TINLA (I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice), but I am a corporate copyright and licensing facilitator. @hmvp has a point.

Ideally, the LICENSE-MIT file will begin with something like this:

Copyright 2017-2018 The failure Developers

Or

Copyright 2017-2018 withoutboats [email protected] and contributors

compenguy avatar Mar 10 '18 23:03 compenguy