On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 11:44 AM McCoy Smith <mc...@lexpan.law> wrote: > > FSF’s definition of what is a free software license includes badgeware > licenses (because such licenses still meet the 4 software freedoms), but they > also do not recommend use of badgeware licenses. See the comment on the > 4-clause BSD: > https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#OriginalBSD
I wouldn't consider 4-clause BSD to be badgeware. Badgeware, to me, refers to a license that requires display of some sort of sufficiently-annoying branding or graphical attribution in the user interface of the software. FSF has recognized some arguably-badgeware licenses as free software licenses, such as CPAL. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#CPAL Richard > > > > From: License-discuss <license-discuss-boun...@lists.opensource.org> On > Behalf Of Henrik Ingo > Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 7:52 AM > To: license-discuss@lists.opensource.org > Subject: Re: [License-discuss] CPAL 1.0 License | Badge-ware | Clarification > > > > > > The fact that FSF also recognizes CPAL as a free software license is an > interesting addition to this argument. > > > > https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html > > > > _______________________________________________ > The opinions expressed in this email are those of the sender and not > necessarily those of the Open Source Initiative. Official statements by the > Open Source Initiative will be sent from an opensource.org email address. > > License-discuss mailing list > License-discuss@lists.opensource.org > http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org _______________________________________________ The opinions expressed in this email are those of the sender and not necessarily those of the Open Source Initiative. Official statements by the Open Source Initiative will be sent from an opensource.org email address. License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@lists.opensource.org http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org
