Can we collapse all the Google BSD licenses which have identical text?
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(Reporter: kats, Assigned: kats)
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We have a bunch of Google-BSD licensed things in tree, each with a separate copy of the license in about:licenses except for the copyright line. For BSD-3-Clause we just have a single copy in about:licenses with a "See the individual LICENSE files for copyright owners." text so presumably we should be able to do the same for Google-BSD.
The reason I want this is because we're going to be adding yet another Google-BSD licensed thing and it seems silly to have a bajillion copies of this license.
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Comment 1•6 years ago
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Actually reading through the license text carefully, it says in the second clause that Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice ... in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. I am not a lawyer, but it seems to me that the "documentation and/or other materials" in the case of binary Firefox distributions would in fact be the about:license page, and so that page should reproduce the copyright line. If we just say "See the individual LICENSE files for copyright owners" but don't provide those LICENSE files in an accessible format with the binary distribution then that seems like it would violate the license.
Absent an actual legal opinion to the contrary I'll close this as WONTFIX and we can just add the extra google-bsd copy to about:license, that seems safer.
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