[Bug 513320] Review Request: boxbackup - A fast, secure and automatic online backup system

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Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> changed:

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--- Comment #6 from Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> 2010-01-13 14:56:53 EST ---
Indeed, that license is non-free. The reason is because of the wording:

  3. All use of this software and associated advertising materials must 
     display the following acknowledgement:
         This product includes software developed by Ben Summers.

This differs from the standard BSD with advertising in that it includes the
words "all use of this software". This is probably just a case of poor license
drafting, but even if he means that interactive programs must display an
acknowledgement, as written the clause goes beyond that.

The obvious way to make this free would be to reword it to match BSD with
advertising (as sick as it makes me to type that):

  3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software must
     display the following acknowledgement:
         This product includes software developed by Ben Summers.

Even better would be for it to drop the advertising clause altogether and use
stock BSD, because it also eliminates the GPL incompatibility caused by the
advertising clause.

As it stands now, this is blocked for Fedora.

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