combination of LGPL and BSD licence with pos+neg advertisment clause
The upstream author of mlglade asked me for advise in choosing a
licence since he wants to put a licence that will allow mlglade
to be packaged for debian. He intends to put it under LGPL v2.
The problem is that the mlglade program contains foreign code
of a module whose complete licence is appended below. I'm concerned
about the two advertisement clauses.
1) In my reading, (3) and (4) can lead to a contradiction, in case
someone wants to promote a program using this library. On the other
hand these two clauses seem to be common in the UCB/LBL licence.
2) Is the below licence compatible with LGPL? I'm thinking in
particular of clause (10) of the LGPL which does not allow to
impose any constraints on the product besides the ones expressed
in LGPL (if I understand correctly)
3) If the composition of LGPL and the licence listed below is
consistent, is it DFSG compliant?
-Ralf.
Copyright of the foreign module included in mlglade
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The code contained in this directory has the following license:
" Copyright (c) 1998 Christian Lindig <lindig@ips.cs.tu-bs.de>.
All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
are met:
1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above
copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following
disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided
with the distribution.
3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this
software must display the following acknowledgement:
This product includes software developed by Christian Lindig.
4. The name of the author and copyright holder may not be used to
endorse or promote products derived from this software without
with the distribution.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES
OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE
DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT HOLDER BE
LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY,
OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR
PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY
THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR
TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF
THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
SUCH DAMAGE."
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Ralf Treinen, L.R.I. Bât. 490, Université Paris-Sud,
F91405 Orsay cedex, France. http://www.lri.fr/~treinen
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