Yet another license question

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 05:13 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Tom 'spot' Callaway <tcallawa at ...> writes:
> > This is BSD with advertising (GPL-incompatible, but free). OK for
> > Fedora.
> 
> No, this is NOT the standard BSD advertising clause. The advertising clause 
> covers DISTRIBUTION of software. This one covers USE.

This is the original UCB ad-clause:

<citation>
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.
</citation>

Note: "ADVERTISING materials ... or USE ..."

The FSF notes about this (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bsd.html):

"Initially the obnoxious BSD advertising clause was used only in the
Berkeley Software Distribution. That did not cause any particular
problem, because including one sentence in an ad is not a great
practical difficulty."

So, I agree with Tom. The DXHDF5 license to me is a variant of the BSD
licence.

Ralf