Yet another license question

[Tom 'spot' Callaway]

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. While I understand that 
> the intent of this clause is just to enforce standard academic courtesy, I 
> believe this is not anywhere near Free Software or Open Source. Restrictions on 
> use are simply unacceptable under those guidelines. So I'd say this is NOT OK 
> according to the licensing guidelines (which say the license should be Free 
> Software and/or Open Source according to the FSF and/or OSI). 

I'll ask the FSF, and we'll go from their recommendation.

~spot
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