Does the original copyright need to be included?
ripper234 opened this issue · comments
I see on the bottom of the site I cloned:
© You. Made by the guys at Lockitron. MIT License.
What part of this can be changed?
I'm not an expert on FOSS licenses, but this tells me that "I must retain the original copyright."
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Ping.
You can do whatever the hell you want with the code:
The [..] copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
This does not mean you must display it publicly. But if you would release your fork, it should include the original copyright notice.
But, on the other hand, it would be classy to give some credit where it's due.
As @ariejan said, you can just keep the copyright notice somewhere in your code -- it doesn't need to be in the footer, or even visible. We'd like to get credit for it, but you really don't have to. Selfstarter is yours to do what you would like with.
Sorry for the delayed response,
Jarred