[jdom-interest] licensing

[Jason Hunter]

That's the way I would read it.  Does sort of seem like the "thank you"
clause is superfluous after point #2, but then why does the standard
Apache license have a clause #3 *requiring* the "thank you"?  

Anyway, the "In addition" paragraph still does serve a purpose of making
people think about saying thanks somehow, more than clause #2 does.

-jh-

Louis Tribble wrote:
> 
> Jason Hunter wrote:
> 
> > 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
> >    notice, this list of conditions, and the disclaimer that follows
> >    these conditions in the documentation and/or other materials
> >    provided with the distribution.
> >
> 
> > In addition, we request (but do not require) that you include in the
> > end-user documentation provided with the redistribution and/or in the
> > software itself an acknowledgement equivalent to the following:
> 
> Is my interpretation with respect to the following three cases
> correct?
> 
> (1) A web site that uses JDOM is requested, but not required, to give
> acknowledgement to the JDOM project.
> 
> (2) An application distributed to users that uses but does not include
> JDOM classes (i.e., requires users to download from jdom.org) is
> requested, but not required, to give acknowledgement to the project.
> 
> (3) An application distributed to users that includes JDOM classes
> (either in jdom.jar or merged into another jar file) _must_ include
> the copyright notice, the list of conditions, and the disclaimer in
> its distribution and is requested, but not required, to give the
> acknowledgement.
> 
> Thanks,
> Louis
> --
> 
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