On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:44:45 +0000 brian m. carlson wrote: > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 06:35:30PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: [...] > > - Other than as used herein, neither the name Battelle Memorial Institute > > or Battelle may be used in any form whatsoever without the express > > written consent of Battelle. > > I've CC'd debian-legal because of this last provision. It seems to > restrict the ability to refer to the Battelle Memorial Institute in > unrelated matters. For example, it would forbid me from writing a blog > entry stating that Battelle is a non-profit headquartered in Columbus, > Ohio, US. This is a reasonable (and otherwise legal) use of that name > that this license pretends to restrict.
I get the same impression. Hence, I agree that the above-quoted clause seems to be troublesome. I would strongly recommend upstream to adopt a well-known Free Software license. The one which seems to be closest to the current license is the 3-clause BSD license: http://www.debian.org/misc/bsd.license -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/progs/scripts/pdebuild-hooks.html Need some pdebuild hook scripts? ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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