On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 06:05:12PM +0100, Lennart Augustsson wrote:
> There are variants of the BSD license, some with an advertising clause,
> some without. E.g., UCB, the originators of the BSD license, have removed
> their need for an advertising clause.
I know. The point was that the original BSD license included it, and
that's the most standard BSD license you've got.
> And I don't think it's evil. Do you think that people who write code deserve
> at least that much credit?
Do you really think that every advertisement for a product that uses
someone's code must contain a notice that this is so? This may be
practical, if only one or two such notices are required. Consider a
product that includes code from a hundred different contributors, all
requiring a different advertisement clause; an ad for this product would
necessarily be several pages long, and most of it would be a list of
contributor names. A simple banner ad would be illegal.
Yes, a code author deserves credit, but the advertisement clause is just
an impractical way of enforcing that.
See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bsd.html for a more elaborate
explanation of this problem.
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