On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 11:11:42PM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote: > > I don't recall what makes advertising clauses DFSG-free. Unenforcability? > > It doesn't violate DFSG 9, because it's not making any claims on the > other software. The advertising clause kicks in whether you distribute > the software by itself, on a compilation CD, or whatever. > > Now, the advertising clause is GPL-incompatible, which is what I suspect > you're thinking of with the "additional restriction" stuff. But lots of > free licenses are GPL-incompatible.
Well, if it was enforcable, it'd be a restriction on distribution: #1. I seem to recall people saying that this wasn't a problem since it's not within the bounds of copyright, and unenforcable, and could be ignored for determining DFSG-freeness. (I'm not sure that ignoring a license restriction because it's theretically not enforcable is a good *general* rule, but it seems reasonable enough here.) But I havn't followed a full discussion on this, so I don't know for sure. -- Glenn Maynard