-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/14/12 14:58, Clark C. Evans wrote: > Good Morning! > > Our company is releasing a medical informatics platform, RexDB, > under the GPLv3 license later this year (after the code has a > developer documentation). We will be using 7b clause of the GPLv3 > license for a reasonable author attribution. > > Even so, parts of our system will be released under a more > permissive license, and I'm wondering if there is a simple, > MIT-style clause that would be compatible with the GPLv3?
IANAL, but consider these points: - "GPL compatible" are licenses that allow relicensing of the work with GPL. So they are a strict subset of GPL in a way. - MIT/BSD allows relicensing to pretty much any other open-source license. - The original BSD license (with advertising clause) has not been OSI approved. - The original BSD license (with advertising clause) is not GPL compatible. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq#OrigBSD As far as I read 7b, it's about comments like /* (C) John Doe, 2007 * This copyright notice must be preserved ... */ It talks about preserving the preservation of legal notices or author attributions, not rules of any ad formats for the software. c-d also only limit the misrepresentation (much like BSD), but does not prevent anyone from not giving you attribution in marketing material -- *The only thing you demand is that they distribute the source, and that the source must (forever) contain your name.* BSD/MIT licenses do demand that too. Cheers, Johannes > > Here's my crayon attempt... > > To the extent that an application using this software displays > legal notices, copyrights, or attributions it must acknowledge the > Example Project (http://example.org) in a similar manner. > > Would this sort of clause be compatible with GPLv3 and would it > meet the OSI criteria? Would anyone have specific wording > suggestions? I'm asking here because I'd rather re-use something > similar, if not, then I'd prefer to be adding a clause that has > "consensus" here. > > Thank you kindly. > > Clark _______________________________________________ > License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org > http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk8S4U8ACgkQ7X1+MfqVcr032gCdHSg4nNUrhy6jnmguBtz6nI/n m4oAn2+iRfB5Xl/+yyDQLKYwTMfM7zUs =DgDe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
