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Software license for blocklet question

Brain Titan
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I found an open source project with permissible license for redistribution and modifications (BSD3 license)

I have built on the open software and made my own modification, which will be governed and released under the same license, so that’s all good.

This is the license clause:

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My question is in regards to where I will have to state this license for my blocklet?

I will of course have it here in LICENSE file, and briefly mentioned in README file too, alongside the executable code:

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But does the full written license have to go in the blocklet description too? Like in the overview tab in blocklet store for example?

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Or in the blocklet Overview would a statement such as the below one suffice (assuming the license is included in LICENSE file and Readme.md in the source code):

“Disclaimer: XYZ blocklet/application is a fork and modification of insert original source/ public repository here and it is in no way involved with or supported by the creators of insert original source/ public repository here

All modifications made by insert dev here fall under the same permissive license used for the original open source software (all included in the blocklet source code).”

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wangshijun2 years ago

The blocklet created from an open source project should use the same license as the original project, and there is a license field in blocklet.yml of your blocklet, just set that field to the license name should be OK.

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