On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:50:27 +0100 Andrew Suffield wrote: > Package: spread > Severity: serious > > "3. All advertising materials (including web pages) mentioning > features or use of this software, or software that uses this software, > must display the following acknowledgment: "This product uses software > developed by Spread Concepts LLC for use in the Spread toolkit. For > more information about Spread see http://www.spread.org""; > > Seriously?
Seriously what? I am not sure I understand what you mean: could you please elaborate? What you quoted looks like an Obnoxious Advertising Clause (OAC), a GPL-incompatible restriction, but one that has traditionally been accepted by the Debian Project as compliant with the DFSG (even though recommended against), AFAICT. I took an ultra-quick glance at the full license text http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/s/spread/spread_3.17.4-2/spread.copyright and I noticed a choice of venue clause (with venue fixed in the courts of the State of Maryland, USA). As it is well-known, choice of venue clauses have been discussed to death here on debian-legal, with opposing opinions expressed by a lot of different people. My own personal take on the matter is that such clauses are non-free restrictions, since they may force licensees to sustain unreasonable costs due to long distance travels. > > For -legal: consider this page: > http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/spread What should I consider, more precisely? -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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