Re: License question

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Hello, I was wondering if instead of a disclaimer, a way to download the
> license to view it is alright?

If you are developing an online application, this should be fine – I
guess you provide a button that says 'disclaimer', and if the user
presses this button, the license gets downloaded and displayed, right?

> Also, does it even count as redistribution if I use it to run a
> discord bot?

Since I have no idea about discord and discord bots, I can't comment
on that.

> I was thinking of placing all the licenses of the libraries I use,
> that require the copy of the license to be in the redistribution, in
> a place where they can be downloaded through a command to the
> discord bot.

This should be fine, I think – compare this to GNU command line
utilities.  If you say

```
> grep
```

at the command line prompt, the program responds with

```
Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]...
Try 'grep --help' for more information.
```

If you now say

```
> grep --help
```

you get a long list of help options, among them option `--version`.
If you now say

```
> grep --version
```

you get

```
grep (GNU grep) 3.1
Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Mike Haertel and others, see 
<http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/tree/AUTHORS>.
```


    Werner