Hello, I've come across a piece of software that has a requirement in its license text mandating to cite a certain set of works in scientific publications for which the software has been used.
I vaguely remember that such citation requirement clauses were generally considered to be non-free (see, e.g., [1]), but I have trouble to come up with a reason for this assessment. Essentially, such a requirement is nothing but an obnoxious advertising clause, which of course is widely regarded to be DSFG-free (but GPL-incompatible). One could even argue that the citation requirement is less severe, as it only asks you to do what many of the potential users are required by law to do anyway. Can works with a citation requirement go into main? If you're interested in the specific case, the actual license text is available at [2]. Hendrik [1] <https://people.debian.org/~bap/dfsg-faq.html> [2] <http://sourceforge.net/p/openmps/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/gpl3-cite.txt> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/878ukm7ci2....@mid.gienah.enyo.de
