How do I correctly ship licenses with my desktop app?

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I'm at the tail end of development of a desktop application and I'm wondering how I go about shipping the required libraries with the app.

I'm using node-webkit as my UI framework and in the wiki it states that I should ship the MIT License, the LGPL, the BSD, the Ms-PL and an MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license. How exactly? Package them inside the executable? Provide them alongside?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 20 '14 at 13:44

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Intel XDK (which uses node-webkit) provides them inside the "About" window (in the section "Attribution Notice").

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answered Jun 20 '14 at 13:44

Marco Fabbri

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Cheers. So have the licenses somewhere a regular user could find them? I was thinking of just packing them inside the app but that doesn't seem like the solution. – WilliamMayor Jun 24 '14 at 10:07
Yes, I think the licenses should be user accessible. – Marco Fabbri Jun 25 '14 at 12:49

How do I correctly ship licenses with my desktop app?

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