Claire Giordano scripsit: > I'm wondering how feasible it would be to require people creating and > distributing derived works to advertise (if they advertise) > that their derived work was "based on the open source technology" in > question.
It's perfectly consistent with the Open Source Definition to require this. However, community experience shows that it's a bad idea, for two reasons: a) It makes the code incompatible with the GPL (which may or may not matter, especially if the license is GPL-incompatible for other reasons). b) If the license becomes popular, it puts a great burden on the makers of distributions: they may have to include dozens or hundreds of such attribution lines with every advertisement, which is expensive. For these reasons, the University of California unilaterally and retroactively annulled this clause from the BSD license as used in their works, and most people who have used the BSD license since then have excluded it. -- We call nothing profound [EMAIL PROTECTED] that is not wittily expressed. John Cowan --Northrop Frye (improved) http://www.reutershealth.com -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3