bcfg2 license?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Tue Dec 19 13:52:22 UTC 2006


Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 19:09 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Patrice Dumas wrote:
>>> On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 10:12:51PM -0600, Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:
>>>> http://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/bcfg2/browser/trunk/bcfg2/LICENSE
>>>>
>>>> Free enough for extras?
>>> No, because of the advertisement clause:
>>>  
>>> "4. All advertising materials, journal articles and documentation
>>>  mentioning features derived from or use of the Software must display
>>>  the following acknowledgment:"
>>>
>>> This is a restriction on use which renders it non free. Also it may be 
>>> hard to follow this rule since it is not very precise, since 'mentionning
>>> features derived from or use' maybe understood more or less broadly.
>> Dont we allow the 4-clause BSD license in Fedora?
> 
> Annoyingly, yes.  It's on the list of GPL-Incompatible, Free Software
> Licenses.
> 

The above advertising clause isnt much different. Is it?

Rahul




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