OSD #10 prevents certain kinds of badgeware licenses:
10. License Must Be Technology-Neutral
No provision of the license may be predicated on any individual technology or
style of interface.
Rationale: This provision is aimed specifically at licenses which require an
explicit gesture of assent in order to establish a contract between licensor
and licensee. Provisions mandating so-called "click-wrap" may conflict with
important methods of software distribution such as FTP download, CD-ROM
anthologies, and web mirroring; such provisions may also hinder code re-use.
Conformant licenses must allow for the possibility that (a) redistribution of
the software will take place over non-Web channels that do not support
click-wrapping of the download, and that (b) the covered code (or re-used
portions of covered code) may run in a non-GUI environment that cannot support
popup dialogues.
/Larry
From: License-discuss <license-discuss-boun...@lists.opensource.org> On Behalf
Of Bruce Perens
Sent: Tuesday, December 4, 2018 8:22 AM
To: license-discuss@lists.opensource.org
Subject: Re: [License-discuss] Open source license with obligation to display
an attribution?
Yeah, let's hear the problem statement first.
There are a few issues with "badgeware", software which requires a web-page
acknowledgement: First, it makes a legal requirement for simple use, rather
than creation of a derivative work. In general, we don't expect simple users to
have read the license at all, or to have access to legal counsel. Second is
that badgeware doesn't scale. Debian offers around 25K packages. Thus one could
easily see a web page with hundreds of badges, where managing them becomes a
serious burden to the user.
Thanks
Bruce
On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 8:03 AM Chris Lamb <chris.l...@opensource.org
<mailto:chris.l...@opensource.org> > wrote:
Simon,
> What I have in mind is for software that is used to drive a web-site,
> where we just want to request that a logo with the words "Powered by
> ACME technology" is displayed on the website.
To me, this smells somewhat like an "Xy problem" where one is asking
about attempted solution rather than your actual problem.
What might be more helpful to you and the rest of the community is to
learn what you are trying to prevent / ensure by such a request.
Best wishes,
--
Chris Lamb
Open Source Initiative
Email: chris.l...@opensource.org <mailto:chris.l...@opensource.org>
Website: www.opensource.org <http://www.opensource.org>
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