From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Sep 18 10:23:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9E6237B43E; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 10:23:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e8IHNMT23421; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 10:23:22 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 10:23:22 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Mark Ovens Cc: Mike Doyle , freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RWS Message-ID: <20000918102322.A15156@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20000916153813.H47559@jade.chc-chimes.com> <20000916133833.H12955@magus.users.xmission.com> <20000916153813.H47559@jade.chc-chimes.com> <20000916135840.I12955@magus.users.xmission.com> <3.0.5.32.20000918104842.0086f780@199.107.2.1> <20000918174554.B567@parish> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <20000918174554.B567@parish>; from marko@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 05:45:54PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Mark Ovens [000918 09:46] wrote: > On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 10:48:42AM +0100, Mike Doyle wrote: > > I was looking at the GNU website on Friday, and they still have a > > not-very-complimentary peice about the BSD licence, even though the > > clause in question has been removed. > > > > Just remind me, what exactly was the advertising clause? ISTR that it > was something to do with displaying a credit for the CSRG (or > Berkeley). If that was the case, what was the FSF's gripe? Fire up > emacs, gdb, etc. and what do you get? An advert for GNU/FSF. 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software must display the following acknowledgement: This product includes software developed by the University of California, Berkeley and its contributors. Which sorta stinks because if you have a television add it basically means that at the end you need to scroll that, even worse a lot of individuals have files under the copyright with that clause as well so that doing a television add is pretty much a pain in the butt. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message