Can I minify Javascript that requires copyright notice?
- by Nathan Long
I guess this is actually a legal question, but it relates to software. I'm about to include a JS plugin in a project. The comments include:
Redistributions of source code must
retain the above copyright notice,
this list of conditions and the
following disclaimer. * Redistributions in binary form must
reproduce the above copyright notice,
this list of conditions and the
following disclaimer in the
documentation and/or other materials
provided with the distribution.
Is using this in my web site "redistribution?"
If I minify this to conserve bandwidth, I assume it will strip all comments. If the answer to #1 is yes, doesn't that imply I'm legally not allowed to minify it?
(That would stink, since I was planning to auto-minify all JS as part of the deploy process.)