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From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
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* Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> [000918 22:07] wrote:
> > > 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, this is wrong.
> 
> See the part about "mentioning features or use of this software"?
> 
> If you don't mention "Now with BSD technology!" or "Includes TCP/IP!",
> then you don't have to say squat in the advertising materials.

You're correct, however it'd be pretty hard to sell a BSD based
product any other way.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
"I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."


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