Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 18:41:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in (Rahul Siddharthan) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass), chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IPFilter not free software? Message-ID: <200105251841.LAA12009@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <20010525084905.A94861@lpt.ens.fr> from "Rahul Siddharthan" at May 25, 2001 08:49:05 AM
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> > > What Stallman opposed was the "advertising clause" which said all > > > advertising materials concerning the software must mention the UCB; > > > > No. > > > > It said that if you mentioned features or use of the software > > in your marketing materials, you must give the authors credit. > > Well, if you read it as written that's not what it says. I > cut-and-pasted from the FreeBSD file in my earlier mail. It says > specifically that the UCB must be given credit in all "advertising > materials" (the exact words) mentioning features and use of the > software (and what advertising material does not?) If you can point me to some advertising materials which state: "Now featuring BSD TCP/IP Networking!" I'll be obliged. Also if you can point at one "InterJet" or "IBM Web Connections" ad which mentions features specific to, or use of, FreeBSD. Same goes for FreeGate, F5, Encanto, ClickArray, CacheFlow, Intel InBusiness, etc., etc.. Thanks. > Of course, you're free to your interpretation because I doubt lawyers > will run after you if you don't follow it to the letter. (There is an > addendum in the FreeBSD file, of course, which says the clause has > been removed.) IBM's lawyers have my interpretation; I'm pretty sure that IBM's lawyers know what is and isn't true, from a legal standpoint, as well as which interpretations are or aren't legally defensible. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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