Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 23:02:38 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Cc: jcwells@u.washington.edu, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fascinating GPL License 8) Message-ID: <199902122302.QAA23640@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990212154305.04be99d0@mail.lariat.org> from "Brett Glass" at Feb 12, 99 03:46:02 pm
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> If I ever advertise a product based on code that incorporates that
> license, I may need to point to a Web page and say that the list
> of credits on the page is "incorporated by reference." Otherwise, I'd
> overflow any ad I could afford, even if I used minuscule type! The
> folks deserve the credit, but I don't think the intent was to make
> it impossible to advertise.
[ ... ]
> >> * 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
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> >> * must display the following acknowledgement:
> >> * This product includes software developed by the University of
> >> * California, Berkeley and its contributors.
So, for example, if you used sendmail before the license changed, and
one of your bullet items was "Supports Delivery Status Notification",
you would have to display the acknowledgement.
But if you didn't bullet-item any features particular to the software,
and you didn't bullet item something like "Industry standard sendmail",
then you wouldn't have to display the acknowledgement.
It's only if you are advertising specific features or incorporation
of specific software that you have to acknowledge where you got it.
This whole "the advertising clause is too onerous" idiocy is just
that: idiocy. You wouldn't be able to bullet item all of the features
of just sendmail on one page. Fitting the list of features is more
of a problem than the list of acknowledgements that would be required
as a result of doing so.
FYI, the reason that Berkeley had assignment of license requirements,
and the reason code says "contains code donated to Berkeley by
Genentech" and similar organizations is to leave the clause at
"the University of California, Berkeley and its contributors".
If anything, the lack of a requirement to assign license to "The
FreeBSD Project, Inc." or some other single entity, and the
number of unassigned incorporated programs is what makes the
list so large, were you to trigger the advertising clause.
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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