[SWFObject] swfobject / MIT copyright

[Geoff Stearns]

Well, I'm not a lawyer or anything, but I believe that the copyright  
is intended to be included if you redistribute the script, not just  
use it in a website.

The copyright says 'software,' so i'm not sure exactly how that  
applies to web based stuff, but I would think that someone using your  
website is not the same as distributing the script, so I wouldn't  
worry about it there.

Either way, I'm certainly not going to come knocking on your door  
about missing copyright statements anyway - I chose the MIT license  
because it was the least restrictive one I could find, so you can  
basically do whatever you want with the script once you download it.



On Sep 10, 2006, at 9:38 PM, Bock, Sarah wrote:

> Hi
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> Our programming team has been using Geoff Stearn’s swfobject script  
> to embed Flash objects for the last few months and we have been  
> really pleased with the results.
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> The copyright statement we have included to this date has been the  
> general statement included at the top of the originally downloaded  
> script (see below), which contains a link to a more general MIT  
> copyright notice.
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> It has been brought to my attention that this may not be  
> sufficient, as the MIT copyright notice states that the notice as  
> well as the permission notice must also be included in the script.
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> So, basically, the purpose of this email is to identify whether we  
> have been in breach of copyright by using the swfobject script in  
> our educational resources with the shorter copyright statement as  
> shown below. As we have already published the script in an  
> abundance of locations we also would need to identify how to remedy  
> this breach in our finished resources.
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> Currently used copyright statement:
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> /**
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>  * SWFObject v1.4.1: Flash Player detection and embed - http:// 
> blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/
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>  *
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>  * SWFObject is (c) 2006 Geoff Stearns and is released under the  
> MIT License:
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>  * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
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>  *
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>  * **SWFObject is the SWF embed script formerly known as  
> FlashObject. The name was changed for
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>  *   legal reasons.
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>  */
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> Regards
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> Sarah
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