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February 6

Using MIT or BSD licensed software as a part of a closed-source program

Hi! The MIT and BSD licenses allow using software licensed under it to be included in closed-source software, but they require the license text to be included with the software somehow. How to do it correctly? Should the license text be included in a readme file, or something? 88.148.251.200 (talk) 18:24, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

What about bundling a licence.txt file with the package? --Ouro (blah blah) 19:31, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

How about making it open source? --190.60.93.218 (talk) 19:45, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

I see programs that have a readme with a section: "Parts of the source code of this program are under the following license: [bla bla]". See if your computer has such readmes in its programs directory. If the program has a GUI, another way is to put the license text in a help menu -- I am writing this using the Firefox browser, which has Help / About Firefox / Licensing Information. Captain Hindsight (talk) 21:37, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

How can I close wiki-site?

I banned my wiki-site since I moved to Wikia on January 23, 2012. That's because wiki-site was spammed (meaning it often gets blocked after I load pages more than four times within a minute) and doesn't have many advanced tools and features. How can I close BlueEarth wiki-site? PlanetStar (talk | contribs) 22:47, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

Where is this old wiki hosted? -- Finlay McWalterჷTalk 22:51, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

At [1]. PlanetStar (talk | contribs) 22:32, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

It looks like you shoudl contact their support address, listed here. -- Finlay McWalterჷTalk 22:57, 7 February 2012 (UTC)