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I am thinking of using an open source set of classes for work and just want to be sure I am following whatever we need to do. I would like to get BindingListView in the product. I spent this morning hooking it up and getting things to work. It looks like it uses the BSD license, but I really don't understand all of the open source licenses.

Do we need to include the source code when we release the product?
If I make code changes do I need to make our changes available?
Do we need to add some copyright or anything to the About Box?
Do we need to mention anything in the User Manual or Release Notes?

Thanks for your help.

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The BSD license is a very liberal license. It's only restrictions are :

• Keep the copyrights in place in the source
• Any binary forms must contain a copyright notice somewhere in your documentation.. like "Portions of this program copyright..."
• You can't use the copyright holder's name to promote your product.

http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php

You don't have to release any source or modifications.

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Thank you!!! That was what I thought, but I just don't deal much with Open Source. Sounds fairly easy and open.

I'm still not sure I am going to use the classes, though. I'm trying to understand and implement something as well. I can approach this from two angles and see which one fits better with our needs.

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What Sam said.

The BSD is nice for developers who work in or with a lot of proprietary (spit spit spit ) stuff.
Now back to my proprietary chicken game.

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Thanks a bunch for the information.

Praise God! I had two big features to add to something I am working on. I thought they would take about 8 days to complete. I started on Monday and already have them in a good demo state! AMEN! I knew I was going to look at adding filtering to my grid today and I was not looking forward to it. I prayed about it in the morning. Today I integrated in that open source thing I mentioned and also was able to implement my own version using the classes I've already been using. I had these two ideas working today! In the end, I'm choosing the latter so I removed the open source code and no longer require it. The open source project had a multitude of classes and hierarchy that seemed a bit too much, especially if we want to easily maintain it and understand it.

Anyway, I'm just really excited to proclaim God's help in getting this implemented sooner than expected. I certainly did not think I'd be leaving work today with the Filtering stuff in a workable state.

The next big enhancement is data conversion (distances, signal strengths, and Coordinate Systems --> THIS will be the difficult one).

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