On Friday 19 August 2005 01:11 pm, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > boblq wrote: > > On Friday 19 August 2005 12:18 pm, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > > > *THE ADVERTISINBG CLAUSE IS INCOMPATIBLE WITH THE GPL* > > > > > > Of course the FSF is going to fix this problem. They have successfully > > > gotten people to change from the 4 clause BSD license to the 3 clause > > > BSD license (the latter being GPL compatible). WHen that fails, a fork > > > of the code or a re-write of it. > > > > I am ignorant of most licensing details, so ... > > > > What is the reason the GPL is incompatible with advertising? > > The GPL prevents adding on extra restrictions, except for a copyright > notice when the program is run interactively. > > The advertising clause is an extra restriction. >
I am not talking about a clause. I am talking about the advertising itself. Say there is a statement. "XYZ Corp did a good thing. They provided funding for this GPL code development." Does such a statement have to be exorcised from the documentation for the code to be GPLd? Why? Bob -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
