Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 15:23:34 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IPFilter not free software? Message-ID: <20010524152334.K52234@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010524053451.0443c350@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Thu, May 24, 2001 at 05:38:01AM -0600 References: <20010524122010.C52234@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20010524053451.0443c350@localhost>
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Brett Glass said on May 24, 2001 at 05:38:01: > > This means that the license is not compatible with the GPL (a good > thing, IMHO). (The GPL allows the author to be denied credit and > in fact prohibits any license provision that would allow the author > to insist upon getting credit for his hard work. Historically, this > trait of the GPL is due to Stallman's contempt for BSD.) Incidentally (at the risk of triggering yet another GPL flame war) you're wrong there too. They explicitly encourage distributing a clear copyright notice (which includes mentioning authorship) as part of the program. http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl-faq.html#IWantCredit What Stallman opposed was the "advertising clause" which said all advertising materials concerning the software must mention the UCB; if every contributor added on a similar clause (he cites the instance of NetBSD which needed 75 such notices in 1997), this would be a problem. The clause he's talking about is in /usr/src/COPYRIGHT on your FreeBSD machine: 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 is very different from what the IPFilter notice says. The IPfilter notice, by itself, wouldn't conflict with the GPL if it didn't restrict modification. - Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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