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Here is a plugin I wish to redistribute:

http://plugins.jquery.com/project/TextAreaResizer

I've written a Jquery plugin that needs the text resizer as a prerequisite. The license type says:

License type: Simplified BSD License/FreeBSD License

I did a bit of googling and it said you have to retain all license info, but this plugin doesn't come with any! Can I package a modified version of this (I changed one number in the source) and distribute it with my plugin?

Thanks for any insight

Jimmy Hoffa
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Tom
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The BSD license is basically:

  • copyright information
  • a couple of clauses that instruct you to reproduce the copyright information and forbid you to claim the original authors endorse your modifications
  • a disclaimer

I agree it's a little weird that this distribution doesn't contain the license. The download doesn't even include a copyright notice (it just says "created by")!

This is clearly an example where someone didn't take licensing seriously, which is perhaps understandable given that it's such a small amount of code. Personally I would add the BSD license to my derivative and credit the original author as copyright holder of the original work, since that appears what the original developer intended.

Plus it won't hurt to have the BSD disclaimer in your code :)

Deckard
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