[Fedora-legal-list] Question about BSD style license

[threethirty]

On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 14:42 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: 
> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 13:56, Richard Fontana <rfontana at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 01:06:50PM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> >> The clause that causes GPL problems in the original BSD was the
> >> following license terms:
> >>
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >>
> >> That would seem equivalent to
> >>
> >> >  * 4. Redistributions of any form whatsoever must retain the following
> >> >  *    acknowledgment: 'This product includes software developed by the
> >> >  *    "Universidad de Palermo, Argentina" (http://www.palermo.edu/).'
> >>
> >>
> >> so it would seem that your software is BSD with advertising clause.
> >
> > I don't agree that it is equivalent to BSD with advertising clause.
> > The question is whether the acknowledgement clause makes the license
> > GPL-incompatible in the same way that the advertising clause in the
> > old BSD license made it GPL-incompatible.
> 
> Ack.. and I forgot my IANL I am just trying to be helpful clause on my
> email. My apologies for making things muddier.
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Smooge:

no need to apologize this list is often as clear as mud :)

-Justin 'threethirty' O'Brien <- NAL