Messages in this thread | | | From | (david parsons) | Subject | Re: [OFFTOPIC] Gnumenclature was Re: IBM, was never Re: Linux Kernel | Date | 11 Jan 1999 01:02:26 -0800 |
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In article <linux.kernel.Pine.LNX.3.96.990109192943.30838C-100000@z.ml.org>, Gregory Maxwell <linker@z.ml.org> wrote: >On 8 Jan 1999, david parsons wrote: > >> ____ >> david parsons \bi/ And there's nothing wrong with giving credit where >> \/ credit is due. >> > >The real problem with using that sort of BSD licence is that if multiple >people use varrients of it. Say if all the packages in a Linux distro were >under a licence that made adverts contain 'derrived from code developed by ><insert developer here>'. A dist like redhat would have to take out 5 page >adds just to mention the product. :) > >The advert clause makes products not scale. :)
I dunno. When I wrote the CREDITS page for McAfee's _WebShield_ product, it ended up being about 400 lines long. A lot of that is the copyright text for the various packages (I included every copyright I could find except the *GPL, which I put links to); none of these credits ended up in the (pitiful) advertising for the products.
And since WebShield includes a complete Slackware system (it would have become Mastodon, except the product was just cancelled last month. Sigh) it includes LOTS of Berkeley-style license code. And there's nothing in that code requiring McAfee to give a credits list in the advertisements (because Webshield is Linux, it doesn't have the McKusick daemon and the attribution requirement; none of the other Berkeley stuff requires that I credit it in advertisements, and in fact it requires that I get permission before I do.)
____ david parsons \bi/ The horrible thing about it all is that if I'd used \/ a BSD kernel, the only person I would have dropped from the credits list would have been Linus Torvalds.
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