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a running legal system we do not have FLOSS, neither the Free, nor the Libre, nor the Open Source Software. Only if the four rights have successfully been granted to us by the respective licenses, we have, what we want to have: free accessible software. But for preserving these rights we must thoroughly try to fulfill the conditions these FLOSS licenses impose on us: You can’t have the cake and eat it.
Sometimes the nature of the FLOSS makes our compliance life miserable. We have described that in a specific post. Here are some additional irritating examples:
Both, the uncompressed JQuery version as well as the compressed JQuery version contain a more or less small a header with the copyright information and a link to a page with some information about the MIT license. hoverIntend is designed as a JQuery plugin. But none of them – neither the libs, nor the plugin – contain the license text.
modernizr is a set of functions which is compiled by a configuration process and offers only a short header with a small hint to the MIT license. This header does neither contain a copyright line nor the license text itself, the corresponding license page does not contain an adequate copyright line.
superfish is offered as compressed and uncompressed javascript plugin for jQuery. It is double licensed under the MIT and/or the GPL. This implicitly means, that one can select the license one needs. The compressed version as well as the uncompressed version only contains a small header without any license text.
The bretteleben.de JavaScript Slideshow contains a header with the copyright information and is licensed under the GPL v3. Unfortunately it does not include the license text. But if one adds it manually, the source code becomes so large, that the performance suffers.
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