Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 01:45:15 -0600 From: Danny MacMillan <flowers@users.sourceforge.net> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: [OT] Sapir-Whorfian Advertising Clause (was Advertising clause in license) Message-ID: <20041023074515.GB920@procyon.nekulturny.org> In-Reply-To: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNOEIEEPAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <20041022203551.85768.qmail@web54101.mail.yahoo.com> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNOEIEEPAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 08:50:13PM -0600, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > Nell, > > Just a request, please do not use the term "advertising clause" > > This is a term that was created by the Linux bigots, specifically > people like RMS who is so bigoted he can't see beyond the tip > of his nose. It has never been "advertising" before to give > credit to the authors of a software package until the pro-GPL-anti-BSD > crowd came along. It has also never been a burden of any kind > to include credit to UCB until people started to think it was > because the GPL crowd told them. And many companies used BSD > code without giving credit, and nobody cared. (for example, > Microsoft who used plenty of BSD code including BSD header files > that still had the BSD copyrights in them) Be that as it may, the term "advertising clause" seems strictly definitive, as it pertains to a clause that refers to advertising. That much at least seems obvious from what Nell fgrep'd for. I don't disagree with the substance of your point, but it is counter- productive to redefine language to suit one's political agenda. > I think it is either extremely mean-spirited to make a big > deal over this or it is a subtle BSD-bash to do so. Nobody in > the BSD community ever coined the term "advertising-clause" this > was forced on us from without, and there is no reason to use > it. > > Ted Mittelstaedt > > ... -- Danny
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