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by mirabilos 3394 days ago
As far as I can tell: no, unless GitHub takes taking excerpts from works too far and redistributing them without the licence attached. But nobody else is allowed to deal in those excerpts then, except via the original licence, so, likely not.

But 4-clause BSD and similar advertising clauses are _probably_ affected, and Apache 2 _when_ a NOTICE text file exists is _very likely_ affected. (Maybe even without; the Apache 2 licence requires giving recipients a copy of the licence text, too.)
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TechHawk 3394 days ago
Thanks for your reply!

Regarding "Maybe even without; the Apache 2 licence requires giving recipients a copy of the licence text", doesn't the BSD 3-clause license require this as well?

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mirabilos 3393 days ago
BSD/MIT/etc. only require the licence text to be present, usually by retaining it in the source code or accompanying documentation. Yes, it’s close. No, I don’t want to go there and discuss this detail.
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