Re: [dev] [dwm] New software: swm & infobary

From: NRK <nrk_AT_disroot.org>
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2024 13:52:14 +0000

> > Come on, Chris. The conditions dwm's license imposes is "The above
> > copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included", not
> > "Exactly what parts are copied and their authorship shall be indicated"
> > or whatever. (Or if you are giving that as a condition for granting
> > relicensing permission, make it clear.)
>
> Please learn how MIT licensing works.
> [...]
> Restore the Git history, or violate the license: it's as
> simple as that.

I am of course open to being corrected, but AFAIK there's no requirement
to keep git history. Only requirement is to keep the license
file/notice.

Indeed there are still open source projects which do not even use git
(or any version control for that matter). And if git history was
required then the tarballs distributed in suckless.org would also
violate the license.

As for not every contributors being listed in the license file, that's
on the upstream authors. The license imposes no legal requirement for
someone who's copying it to hunt down and correct/list missing author
notices.

- NRK
Received on Sat Oct 26 2024 - 15:52:14 CEST