I've been playing around with some jQuery plugins for an upcoming job and been reading through the licenses. To be completely upfront, I'm not entirely sure of the best way to adhere to them. It's one thing with the ICO and cookies but as I seldom use plugins I'd like to know the right way of doing it.

 

In the past I've kept a comment at the very top of the main stylesheet with the authors name, uri if applicable and the copyright year. If you're like me and read through a lot of source code by fellow designers/developers, you might also note quite a few of people aren't including copyright information within their markup.

 

So pop pickers, question is where is the best place to include the author of a plugins copyright information - at the top of your stylesheet, a link within your markup or something completely different.

 

(I must disclaim that I started typing this post a couple of hours ago and didn't finish it. Apologies if it appears a little vague).

As long as the 'copyright information' is in the plugin's js and/or CSS file, it should be fine. Having said that, you could always create a humans.txt

As long as the 'copyright information' is in the plugin's js and/or CSS file, it should be fine. Having said that, you could always create a humans.txt

 

Cheers for the reply. I must admit, I didn't think anyone looked at humans.txt. I used to type them up but felt it was all in vain. I'll consider implementing them again