A FOSS license question for everyone. I've got a developer writing a small
commercial Windows application (I know. I'm going to hell) with a file
upload/download component. He suggests using the PuTTY code as a base for
the component rather than writing it from scratch. It's an MIT license
(similar to BSD apparently. See below), so it's legal as long as we include
the license. My question is just how far do we have to go in including the
text? Do we just have the license and attribution as part of the EULA
(sorry!) or do we need to do more? Does it impact the licensing of the
overall codebase?
Gary
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