[Fedora-legal-list] 4-clause BSD issue

[Ziyad Saeed]

Thank you Tom for the replyI have another developer of Genuis 3D. Its
a proprietary code so far, but they have plans of open sourcing it. However,
the developer mentioned that it will be GPL with some additions. I guess
that would make it GPL incompatible.

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Tom "spot" Callaway
<tcallawa at redhat.com>wrote:

> On 10/14/2009 07:35 AM, Ziyad Saeed wrote:
> > There is a question by one of the opensource developers of NanoTCAD
> > whether his code which is a 4-clause BSD is allowed to be packaged in
> > Fedora Electronics Lab or not.
>
> Ziyad,
>
> It is permitted, but it is worth mentioning that because of the
> "advertising" clause, this license is GPL incompatible, which may cause
> problems with other software.
>
> The original author of the BSD license (Regents of the University of
> California) has stopped using the advertising clause, and has withdrawn
> it from all code for which they are the copyright holder. I would
> strongly advise the NanoTCAD developer to also drop the advertising clause.
>
> For more information, see:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses#UC_Berkeley_advertising_clause
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tom Callaway, Fedora Legal
>
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