Qwt license

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Hi,

Qwt is a library of Qt widgets, packaged in Fedora. The website is:

  http://qwt.sourceforge.net/


The license of that library is the "Qwt license, version 1.0". You can find 
its text here:

  http://qwt.sourceforge.net/qwtlicense.html

That license is mostly "LGPLv2 with exception". However, there is an 
additional paragraph that in my opinion is an advertising clause:

      "However, programs must still identify their use of Qwt.
       The following example statement can be included in user
       documentation to satisfy this requirement:

           [program/widget] is based in part on the work of
           the Qwt project (http://qwt.sf.net)."

I seems to be incompatible with GPL. See the FSF FAQ about the original BSD:

  http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#OrigBSD


Is my understanding correct? If so, how can we deal with that?

Best regards,

-- 
Laurent Rineau
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LaurentRineau

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