On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 01:06:50PM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > The clause that causes GPL problems in the original BSD was the > following license terms: > > > 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. > > > That would seem equivalent to > > > * 4. Redistributions of any form whatsoever must retain the following > > * acknowledgment: 'This product includes software developed by the > > * "Universidad de Palermo, Argentina" (http://www.palermo.edu/).' > > > so it would seem that your software is BSD with advertising clause. I don't agree that it is equivalent to BSD with advertising clause. The question is whether the acknowledgement clause makes the license GPL-incompatible in the same way that the advertising clause in the old BSD license made it GPL-incompatible. GPLv3 explicitly permits incorporation of code covered by terms the require "preservation of specified reasonable ... author attributions in that material". I think that the way this acknowledgement requirement is worded is consistent with that. There is some uncertainty over whether that clause in GPLv3 was intended to codify established practice under GPLv2 or set a new rule, and I know there is at least one license where the FSF has said, post-GPLv3, that the license was GPLv2-incompatible but GPLv3-compatible based on some sort of acknowledgement requirement. So this might be (at least in the FSF's influential view) one of those strange cases where the license is GPLv2-incompatible but GPLv3-compatible, but maybe not. We'll have to figure that issue out (unless we've done so already). But anyway, I think both "BSD" and "BSD with advertising" are incorrect license tags here. Maybe "BSD with attribution" would work? - RF -- Richard E. Fontana Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ legal mailing list legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/legal
