Nell,
Just a request, please do not use the term advertising clause
This is a term that was created by the Linux bigots, specifically
people like RMS who is so bigoted he can't see beyond the tip
of his nose. It has never been advertising before to give
credit to the authors of a software package until the pro-GPL-anti-BSD
crowd came along. It has also never been a burden of any kind
to include credit to UCB until people started to think it was
because the GPL crowd told them. And many companies used BSD
code without giving credit, and nobody cared. (for example,
Microsoft who used plenty of BSD code including BSD header files
that still had the BSD copyrights in them)
I think it is either extremely mean-spirited to make a big
deal over this or it is a subtle BSD-bash to do so. Nobody in
the BSD community ever coined the term advertising-clause this
was forced on us from without, and there is no reason to use
it.
Ted Mittelstaedt
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Subject: advertising clause in license
Hello all,
after typing:
fgrep -r All advertising materials /usr/src/sys
it seems like there are still many files which
contain the advertising clause. has there been any
attempts to contact the copyright authors of these
files and see if it can be removed?
not too much of a deal, i was just wondering.
Nell
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