On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 09:16:07PM +0200, Måns Rullgård wrote: > >> Isn't that what the fuss about the "obnoxious advertising clause" of > >> the old BSD (and new XF86) licence is all about? > > > > No. That is almost, but not quite, entirely irrelevant to the issues > > with those licenses. > > I thought the advertising clause was just about the only restriction > in those licenses, the problem being that the GPL doesn't allow extra > restrictions.
The fuss about the OAC was that it required credit in advertising. Please read http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bsd.html "Imagine if a software system required 75 different sentences, each one naming a different author or group of authors. To advertise that, you would need a full-page ad." It's also GPL-incompatible, for the reason you gave, but that's not what "the fuss was about". -- Glenn Maynard
