bcfg2 license?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Tue Dec 19 13:39:40 UTC 2006


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?

Rahul




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