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Re: What license should I use when including code from subversion?

From: Greg Stein <gstein_at_lyra.org>
Date: 2004-02-25 19:24:51 CET

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 05:28:22PM +0200, Peter Lamberg wrote:
>...
> I'm generally for copylefting things, but haven't made up my
> mind about this "advertising clause" thing. There are arguments for
> both sides.

I think Karl explained all this well, so I don't think that I need to
cover that ground. However, the term "advertising clause" is a rather
loaded term when talking about licenses. Historically, this referred to a
clause in a BSD style license which said you must acknowledge the other
contributors in *advertising* material. Imagine a billboard or a magazine
ad or a flyer where you had to mention "Portions of this software were
developed by FOO". It was rather insane :-)

Subversion's license does have what I might call an "acknowledgement
clause". It requires you to simply acknowledge the contribution in your
docs or in the program itself (if there are other ack's in there, such as
an about box).

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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