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Date:      Mon, 18 Sep 2000 18:35:24 +0100
From:      Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc:        Mike Doyle <relyod@co-operation-ireland.ie>, freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RWS
Message-ID:  <20000918183524.G567@parish>
In-Reply-To: <20000918102322.A15156@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 10:23:22AM -0700
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On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 10:23:22AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * Mark Ovens <marko@FreeBSD.ORG> [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.
> 

Thanks for refreshing my memory. I'd forgotten it referred to "All
advertising materials", I thought it only referred to the program
itself.

> -Alfred
> 
> 
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