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

[Stephen John Smoogen]

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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