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Re: Distributing CURL binary and Licensing

From: Edditoria via curl-users <curl-users_at_cool.haxx.se>
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2017 20:11:39 +0800

Thanks for your help. :-)

On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 12:17 AM, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Oct 2017, Edditoria via curl-users wrote:
>
>> 1. Is it okay that I put the exe file directly in my Github repo? (Or
>> some better ways?)
>
>
> It is okay. I can't tell you if there's a better way as I don't have enough
> info to judge.
>
>> 2. Is it one or two licenses I need to take care? (CURL build and Mr.
>> Szakáts's build?)
>
>
> Without knowing legalese and not being a lawyer, I think you can safely
> assume that just including one licesense for curl will be enough. If you
> want to be really sure, I would recommend emailing Viktor to allow him to
> have a say in it.
>
>> 3. Will the MIT license in my repo change to other type of license
>> automatically? (e.g. force others to open-source their code)
>
>
> The MIT license will not change. It is fixed and will remain as it is. No
> license forces you to open-source your code; it is rather the opposite: some
> software have licenses that makes you unable to use them unless you're
> releasing your source code (so called copyleft).
>
> The MIT license is however not a copyleft license.
>
> --
>
> / daniel.haxx.se

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