How to apply this license

Create a text file (named LICENSE.txt) in the root of your source code and copy the text of the license into the file. Replace [yyyy] with the current year.

License Dependencies

In some cases, it may not be possible to release Harvard Library code under the recommended license. This can happen when the code includes other open source projects that have a more restrictive license that requires projects that incorporate it to inherit the license terms. For example, if a project uses open source code licensed under the LGPL or GPL licenses, there a requirements that the consuming project also be licensed in the same manner. One example is the FITS project. FITS bundles code release under the LGPL license, and is consequently also released under the LGPL license.

Embedded licenses

If a release propject project includes other licensed code, the main project license.txt file should include a list of the file paths to all of the embedded license.txt files for subprojects within the main project so thaht a user of the project can know the terms of all embedded code, and hence the overall package.