On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Gregor Hoffleit wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 11:02:36PM +0000, Jules Bean wrote: > > In terms of zope, Bruce will be asking them to consider making the > > requirement a suggestion - so don't go flaming them :-) > > I'd like to add that I was and am in contact with Paul Everitt of > Digital Creations <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> about the Zope license since > late December. These mails are archived in the debian-email archive on > master. > > I already suggested to Paul changing the attribution requirement into > a non-binding voluntary request for a few reasons. He is very > reluctant to do so, since he said that attribution of Zope is the > most important point for DC's Open Source business model. > > I invited Paul to join the discussion on debian-legal.
Paul, I'd like to suggest two alternative attribution strategies: 1) Honestly, voluntary attribution works. People really *are* inclined to credit the software which makes their website tick (How many websites have you seen saying 'made with ...'?). 2) Modify the 'Server' response header on Zope-generated pages. For example, mine says (rather tautologously...) Server: mod_perl/1.17 Apache/1.3.4 (Unix) Debian/GNU mod_perl/1.17 You could make that Server: Apache/1.3.4 (Unix) Zope/1.0 And then it would be counted in things like the netcraft survey, which would get your company plenty of exposure. Regards, Jules Bean /----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------\ | Jelibean aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 6 Evelyn Rd | | Jules aka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Richmond, Surrey | | Julian Bean | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TW9 2TF *UK* | +----------------+-------------------------------+---------------------+ | War doesn't demonstrate who's right... just who's left. | | When privacy is outlawed... only the outlaws have privacy. | \----------------------------------------------------------------------/
