Re: bcfg2 license?

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On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 07:47:59AM -0600, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 19:09 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > > On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 10:12:51PM -0600, Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:
> > >> http://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/bcfg2/browser/trunk/bcfg2/LICENSE
> > >>
> > >> Free enough for extras?
> > > 
> > > No, because of the advertisement clause:
> > >  
> > > "4. All advertising materials, journal articles and documentation
> > >  mentioning features derived from or use of the Software must display
> > >  the following acknowledgment:"
> > > 
> > > This is a restriction on use which renders it non free. Also it may be 
> > > hard to follow this rule since it is not very precise, since 'mentionning
> > > features derived from or use' maybe understood more or less broadly.
> > 
> > Dont we allow the 4-clause BSD license in Fedora?
> 
> Annoyingly, yes.  It's on the list of GPL-Incompatible, Free Software
> Licenses.

Which we are about to dump, or not?

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FreeSoftwareAnalysis

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