Hello,
The company I am working for is developing a web application layer for a commercial software product. My questions have probably been answered before but I have searched and I can't find a similar scenario to my question.
The Web UI will be developed using jQuery and involve using the excellent pre-built plugins other users have developed.
Now under the MIT license can the following be done:
Visual Studio has a plugin that uses the YUI compressor to put all javascript files into one file (compressing and obstruficating the files). a. Should we include all the plugins headers in the one big file?(They would appear with the relevant plugins not just all at the start) (Is this sufficient even?) or b. Should we move them to a separate license file (e.g. license.html) easily accessible to the user?
We have written plugins using jQuery for our own custom functionality, can we use these with the jQuery library and other plugins but not have our plugins inherit the MIT license or be exposed?
Some plugins provided by other authors we have modified, how is it best to handle these? Add a comment to the copyright notice or?
Are there any other legal issues we might have implementing MIT jQuery code/our own commercial code?
A few rather general questions there but I hope someone out there can help us clear up the legal issues, the company is small and we don't have access to lawyers or consultants. So I turn to the community and hope that someone else can help us.
Thanks for any help anyone can provide.
Phil