On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 13:56, Richard Fontana <rfontana@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Ack.. and I forgot my IANL I am just trying to be helpful clause on my email. My apologies for making things muddier. -- Stephen J Smoogen. "The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance." Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University. "Let us be kind, one to another, for most of us are fighting a hard battle." -- Ian MacLaren _______________________________________________ legal mailing list legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/legal
