Ken Arromdee <arrom...@rahul.net> writes: > Unlike the original BSD 4 clause license this adds "or software that uses > this software". > > If I interpret this broadly (all software that uses this software must > display the sentence) it's non-free, since it imposes conditions on > non-derived software that happens to use it. Even if I interpret it > narrowly (all advertising materials mentioning software that uses this > software, must display the sentence) it imposes conditions on advertising > for non-derived software.
But this does not break unrelated software as the code that uses it has to be inserted deliberately, making it no longer unrelated. In a way, this is a stronger restriction than the usual linking arguments pushed by the FSF, but it's not totally crazy. In some jurisdictions even copying a program into memory by an exec(3) call is an action for which you need the permission by the rights holder. Hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
