PCRE license question?

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PCRE license question?

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although this might not be entirely offtopic owing to the fact PB uses PCRE, any thoughts about this statement in last paragraph: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnew ... 0/?p=92361
Raymond Chen wrote:From reading the PCRE license, it appears that if your program uses PCRE, you must reproduce “the above copyright notice”, but there are three copyright notices on that page. Does the program need to reproduce all of them? Or just the last one? It seems to me that nearly everybody just ignores the license requirements. For example, Safari uses PCRE, but the PCRE copyright, licensing terms, and disclaimer do not appear in the Safari EULA or any other Safari documentation I can find.
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If you want to be on the safe side license-wise, you just have to put this file: http://www.purebasic.com/documentation/ ... ation.html with your application (and may be display it in your about window). PureBasic uses a lot of third parties libs, and it's hard to guess which.
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Fred wrote:PureBasic uses a lot of third parties libs, and it's hard to guess which.
It would be nice if there were a utility provided that can scan a PB source file and spit out the names of the licensed library modules (possibly/potentially) used in a executable generated from the code.
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Is it a problem to include the whole file ?
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Not so much a problem as kind of strange.
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heartbone wrote:
Fred wrote:PureBasic uses a lot of third parties libs, and it's hard to guess which.
It would be nice if there were a utility provided that can scan a PB source file and spit out the names of the licensed library modules (possibly/potentially) used in a executable generated from the code.
Yeah, I suggested this before:
http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtop ... =3&t=61188
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Fred wrote:If you want to be on the safe side license-wise, you just have to put this file: http://www.purebasic.com/documentation/ ... ation.html with your application (and may be display it in your about window). PureBasic uses a lot of third parties libs, and it's hard to guess which.
Hi Fred,

this is basically what I do, but the part about "three copyright notices" confused me, really...
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