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the lack of copyright legally problematic, you have too many
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the lack of copyright legally problematic, you have too many
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lawyers.
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lawyers.
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As usual, this software is provided "as is", without any warranty.
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If you copy significant amounts of public domain code from XZ Utils
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If you copy significant amounts of public domain code from XZ Utils
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into your project, acknowledging this somewhere in your software is
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into your project, acknowledging this somewhere in your software is
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polite, but naturally it is not legally required.
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polite (especially if it is proprietary, non-free software), but
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naturally it is not legally required. Here is an example of a good
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notice to put into "about box" or into documentation:
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As usual, this software is provided "as is", without any warranty.
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This software includes code from XZ Utils <http://tukaani.org/xz/>.
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The following license texts are included in the following files:
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The following license texts are included in the following files:
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- COPYING.LGPLv2.1: GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1
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- COPYING.LGPLv2.1: GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1
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Note that the toolchain (compiler, linker etc.) may add some code
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Note that the toolchain (compiler, linker etc.) may add some code
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pieces that are copyrighted. Thus, it is possible that e.g. liblzma
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pieces that are copyrighted. Thus, it is possible that e.g. liblzma
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binary wouldn't actually be in the public domain in its entirety
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binary wouldn't actually be in the public domain in its entirety
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even though it contains no copyrighted code from this package.
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even though it contains no copyrighted code from the XZ Utils source
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package.
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If you have questions, don't hesitate to ask the author(s) for more
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If you have questions, don't hesitate to ask the author(s) for more
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information.
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information.
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