Andrea Aime ha scritto: > Adrian Custer ha scritto: >> Simone, >> thanks for the update. >> On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 20:22 +0100, Simone Giannecchini wrote: >>> the only real problem, the >>> licensing problem seems to be addressed as of now (see my previous >>> email). >> >> How did you resolve the 'advertising clause' issue? Are we expecting to >> change all our docs to include the credit requested by SUN? > > Wondering if just making a license page that lists all of the > licenses of the packages we depend onto would work. I mean, > usually commercial software has such citations inside the about > box, or in the last page of the printed guide, and so on... > it's not really all over the place, and most often not really > in a prominent place either. > > If instead of just stating "the license is LGPL" we point > to a license page that lists the libraries and their licenses, > we're already fullfilling the advertising clause enough, don't > we?
Reading into this GNU document about the nature of the BSD issue: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bsd.html It really seems the only issue GNU sees is a matter of practicality, that is, that if you have 70 different BSD style licenses, you have to add "full page ad" to the material you distribute to cite all of them... As usual, no lawyer, so I may be just plain wrong. Cheers Andrea -- Andrea Aime OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org Expert service straight from the developers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list Geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
