Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 09:53:35 +0500 From: Elisey Savateev <b3k@mail.ru> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best practice for displaying license? Message-ID: <200611070953.59866.b3k@mail.ru> In-Reply-To: <453F15C0.70009@delphij.net> References: <453F15C0.70009@delphij.net>
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--nextPart1441938.a0TNfDeDSi Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Boundary-01=_QFBUFiYltlFWO0l" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline --Boundary-01=_QFBUFiYltlFWO0l Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1251" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline > Hi, folks, > > I am thinking about whether we can use a better way to display license > for a BSD licensed software. Currently I have copy and pasted the > copyright as a static string constant, but that means that we have to > duplicate the text, like this: > > static const char license[] = " * Copyright (c) [year] [your name]\n > * All rights reserved.\n > *\n > * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without\n > * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions\n > * are met:\n > [...] > * SUCH DAMAGE.\n > " > > Is there some better way not to include so much duplicated text? Look at my way to include usage text. --- Elisey Savateev --Boundary-01=_QFBUFiYltlFWO0l-- --nextPart1441938.a0TNfDeDSi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBFUBFnraHIUFMyansRAiZkAKCmEI/S1PDzAJOmKHVS81TYhrV3qgCg55kq Dq6qv6WBwqBQZtSuxpt/0VI= =B+fr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1441938.a0TNfDeDSi--
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