On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 11:05:57AM -0500, Brian T. Sniffen wrote:
> >> ;;; 3. All materials developed as a consequence of the use of this software
> >> ;;; shall duly acknowledge such use, in accordance with the usual standards
> >> ;;; of acknowledging credit in academic research.
> >
> > This is close to some things that would be a problem, but with no real
> > constraints on what form acknowledgement must take, harmless ("usual
> > standards of acknowledging credit in academic research" is a readable
> > citation that is sufficient to find the origin, for anybody who cares
> > enough to do so).
>
> This is, at worst, reducible to the BSD advertising clause. It's not
> reducible to a copyright notice in the binary: if I'm giving a talk
> about a program I wrote for a professor, I'm obligated by academic
> honesty to mention inspirations and contributions *in the talk*.
No you aren't. I've never met an academic who did this unless it was
actually relevant to the talk. Normally you just put a footnote in the
associated paper.
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