Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264451AbUASIOt (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jan 2004 03:14:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264453AbUASIOt (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jan 2004 03:14:49 -0500 Received: from jaguar.mkp.net ([192.139.46.146]:952 "EHLO jaguar.mkp.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264451AbUASIOs (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Jan 2004 03:14:48 -0500 To: Misshielle Wong Cc: David Schwartz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Giuliano Pochini Subject: Re: License question References: From: Jes Sorensen Date: 19 Jan 2004 03:14:39 -0500 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1569 Lines: 29 >>>>> "Misshielle" == Misshielle Wong writes: Misshielle> Hello On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 14:06:32 -0800, David Schwartz Misshielle> wrote: >>> > - Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above >>> copyright > notice, this list of conditions and the following >>> disclaimers in the > documentation and/or other materials provided >>> with the distribution. >> I believe this is an additional restriction as well. Misshielle> I find perfectly fine. Is just a request to include the Misshielle> copyright notice and conditions along with the Misshielle> binary. Section 2, clause c does not override. Does not Misshielle> infringe Section 6 either. What is the problem? You may find this one fine, but that doesn't make it fly, sorry. Requiring people to redistribute the license notice in all documentation included with the binaries is an additional restriction which is not found in the GPL. So a very clear no cannot do. This is also known as the BSD 'advertisement' clause which was the main reason we could never use BSD code in the old days. Berkeley has since updated their license and removed this clause from it, however the license still poses a problem since it doesn't include an explicit patent license grant, but thats a completely different issue. Cheers, Jes - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/