Re: license interpretation

[John Galt <galt@inconnu.isu.edu>]

It's the classic BSD advertising clause, which RMS (and many others) have
deemed to be incompatible with the GPL, but it shouldn't have gone into
non-free for that: the 4-clause BSDL was still DFSG free, there were just
issues with the BSDL and the GPL (which have since been resolved by the 3
clause BSDL).

On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Luca Filipozzi wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm not subscribed, so I'd appreciate CC's. If you prefer that I subscribe,
> let me know.
> 
> I am thinking of using SRP (Secure Remote Password protocol) for the DDT
> (Dynamic DNS Tools) projectk, which is developed by Debian developers and
> packaged for Debian as ddt-client and ddt-server. SRP has an interesting
> set of clauses in addition to the standard BSD stuff:
> 
>  * 1. Any software that incorporates the SRP authentication technology
>  *    must display the following acknowlegment:
>  *    "This product uses the 'Secure Remote Password' cryptographic
>  *     authentication system developed by Tom Wu (tjw@CS.Stanford.EDU)."
>  *
>  * 2. Any software that incorporates all or part of the SRP distribution
>  *    itself must also display the following acknowledgment:
>  *    "This product includes software developed by Tom Wu and Eugene
>  *     Jhong for the SRP Distribution (http://srp.stanford.edu/srp/)."
> 
> Annoying as these are, I can't see how they violate the DFSG. I'd like
> confirmation of this.
> 
> Your help is very much appreciated,
> 
> Luca
> 
> 

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