Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 00:14:40 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: Mark Ovens <marko@FreeBSD.ORG>, Mike Doyle <relyod@co-operation-ireland.ie>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RWS Message-ID: <20000919001440.C9141@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <200009190507.WAA12169@usr02.primenet.com>; from tlambert@primenet.com on Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 05:07:14AM %2B0000 References: <20000918102322.A15156@fw.wintelcom.net> <200009190507.WAA12169@usr02.primenet.com>
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* Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> [000918 22:07] wrote: > > > Just remind me, what exactly was the advertising clause? ISTR that it > > > was something to do with displaying a credit for the CSRG (or > > > Berkeley). If that was the case, what was the FSF's gripe? Fire up > > > emacs, gdb, etc. and what do you get? An advert for GNU/FSF. > > > > 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software > > must display the following acknowledgement: > > This product includes software developed by the University of > > California, Berkeley and its contributors. > > > > Which sorta stinks because if you have a television add it basically > > means that at the end you need to scroll that, even worse a lot of > > individuals have files under the copyright with that clause as well > > so that doing a television add is pretty much a pain in the butt. > > Alfred, this is wrong. > > See the part about "mentioning features or use of this software"? > > If you don't mention "Now with BSD technology!" or "Includes TCP/IP!", > then you don't have to say squat in the advertising materials. You're correct, however it'd be pretty hard to sell a BSD based product any other way. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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