On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 11:57:01PM +0900, Fedor Zuev wrote: > On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > > >Would you consider a hypothetical program license to be free if it > >allowed 'off-topic' text which must be present unmodified in source > >and object code of all derived versions, and must be displayed > >(perhaps through a command-line option) by every derived program? > >Maybe you would, in which case you're consistent. I wouldn't. > > This is the exactly what old BSD license do.
No it isn't. The 4-clause BSD license requires you to add text to any advertising materials you may produce. Nothing to do with the content of the program. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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