Is no-advertising clause GPL-compatible?
Hi,
I am working on packaging Cernlib, a set of high-energy physics tools and
libraries written for the CERN laboratories, under the sponsorship of Bas
Zoetekouw. According to CERN, they have put Cernlib under the GPL.
However, there are still a lot of source code files that have their own
licenses and are not copyright by CERN. In some cases I plan to contact
the original authors. In others, I may have to separate out parts of the
code into libraries in non-free, or delete unused code from the Debian
source tree. Still other parts are obviously GPL-compatible (BSD license
for example) so I won't worry about them.
My question is this: some pieces of code have an approximately BSD license
but with a no-advertising clause, such as the following:
* Copyright (c) 1991, Visual Edge Software Ltd.
*
* ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Permission to use, copy, modify, and
* distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose
* and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
* copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that
* copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting
* documentation, and that the name of Visual Edge Software not be
* used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of
* the software without specific, written prior permission. The year
* included in the notice is the year of the creation of the work.
*-------------------------------------------------------------------*/
Is this GPL-compatible? If not, what would you suggest I do about it?
Thanks in advance,
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Kevin McCarty Physics Department
kmccarty@princeton.edu Princeton University
www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty Princeton, NJ 08544
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