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-Compliance
-
- This is not a legal notice, so do not treat it as one. This is
-intended as "plain English" advice for the average person to ensure
-they comply with licenses in this software in the most simple way. It takes
-the position of "comply with the MOST restrictive license in this
-software and then you will comply with all." If you have any doubts,
-please consult the full license COPYING files and a lawyer. Take this
-as a rough guide.
-
-The simple advice
-
- Do this and you won't go too wrong.
-
-1. Provide the content of ALL of the COPYING and AUTHORS
-files as printed material with your product and/or in a dialog (e.g.
-an "about" dialog) in your product user interface.
-2. Provide a URL from which to be able to download "tar files" with
-ALL of the source of Elementary exactly as it was when used to compile the
-binaries for your product that ships Elementary. Keep this URL valid for the
-lifetime of the product.
-3. If you made changes to Elementary it would be appreciated if you
-interacted with us (see http://www.enlightenment.org ) and provided the
-changes you made in patch form BEFORE you ship a product, so they may
-be reviewed to see if you have made any mistakes and perhaps have
-created problems you do not know of yet.
-
-F.A.Q.
-
-Q. Where is the licensing information?
-A. See the COPYING file here in this directory. This is the proper legal
-information you will need. It covers all of elementary, EXCEPT the
-theme which is public domain (the text files only - images are not).
-
-Q. Do I need to make the source public of libraries or applications that I
-build on top of Elementary?
-A. No. Even the default theme is public domain, which means you can
-make your own by copying it and starting from there, and you may
-license your copied variation any way you like.
-
-Q. Do I need to provide the source for Elementary?
-A. Yes. In general you do. If you are shipping any of the binaries or
-libraries built from Elementary, you must provide the EXACT source code
-used to build those binaries.
-
-Q. If I have to provide source, how should I do this?
-A. The best way is to provide a reference in an "about" dialog in the
-product that ships the Elementary libraries/tools that gives a URL from
-which the source can be downloaded EXACTLY as you used to compile Elementary.
-You may not simply point to upstream repositories and pass the problem
-to someone else. You MUST provide the source exactly as used.
-
- You MAY also provide the source code itself on the product itself
-(e.g. on its filesystem) (provide the tar archives of the source), or in
-place of a download link if you do not believe you will be able to
-maintain that download link for the lifetime of the product.
-
- You MAY also (or instead of the above 2) provide the source on media
-(CD, DVD, flash etc.) that accompany the product.
-
- Choose 1 or more of the above methods and you will be fine.
-
-Q. Do I need to reproduce the license information in the COPYING file?
-A. Yes. You must provide these with your product, and just like the
-source code, provide them as part of the user interface in full (e.g.
-in a dialog), or as files in the filesystem, on actual printed
-material (manuals, papers) that accompany the product or in CD, DVD
-etc. media.
-
-Q. Is there a simpler list of do's and don'ts i can use?
-A. Yes. See http://www.tldrlegal.com. specifically:
-
-http://www.tldrlegal.com/license/gnu-lesser-general-public-license-v2.1-(lgpl-2.1)