On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 10:17 +0100, Andrea Aime wrote: ... > > Adrian Custer ha scritto: > >> How did you resolve the 'advertising clause' issue? Are we expecting to > >> change all our docs to include the credit requested by SUN? ... > Reading into this GNU document about the nature of the > BSD issue: > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bsd.html > > It really seems the only issue GNU sees is a matter of > practicality, that is, that if you have 70 different > BSD style licenses, you have to add "full page ad" to > the material you distribute to cite all of them... > > As usual, no lawyer, so I may be just plain wrong.
That is my understanding as well. The GeoTools project and all dependent projects would gain the obligation to cite SUN in their core project document. Essentially, GeoTools becomes licensed under 'LGPL + documentation obligation', if you will. This is not incompatible but will be more work and imposes a new obligation so the change should be undertaken as a conscious decision rather than happen as an un-intended side-effect of other work. --adrian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list Geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
