Al <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > That's probably because the manner of attribution was specified in the > license, and it was an obnoxious one. I find it hard to see how an > obligation to "make known" the original contributors can be obnoxious: > usually you can find a way to do this in a an unobtrusive manner. For > example, an extra page in a book or an extra text file in a compressed > archive that lists all the contributors can hardly impede use.
Just to remind everyone of the official view: All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software must display the following acknowledgement = OBNOXIOUS, see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bsd.html But! You must enclose the copies in covers that carry, clearly and legibly, all these Cover Texts = NOT OBNOXIOUS Preserve all the Invariant Sections of the Document, unaltered in their text and in their titles = NOT OBNOXIOUS At a minimum such credit will appear where any other comparable authorship credit appears and in a manner at least as prominent as such other comparable authorship credit = NOT OBNOXIOUS Confused yet? Unofficially, having any of them in a licence sucks. -- MJ Ray - see/vidu http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Webmaster/web developer, statistician, sysadmin, trainer, koha dev, online shop maker, GNU/Linux, debian, gobo, gnustep, mailing lists. Workers co-op @ Weston-super-Mare, Somerset http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
