Re: XFree86 license difficulties

["Mahesh T. Pai" <paivakil@vsnl.net>]

paul cannon said on Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 12:31:44PM -0700,:

 > Several  posters  on  slashdot  and elsewhere  have  mentioned  the
 > similarity  between this  and the  old, obnoxious  BSD "advertising
 > clause":

 <snip>

 > The  FSF  is quite  clear  [4],[5] in  that  they  do not  consider
 > licenses  with the  advertising clause  to be  compatible  with the
 > GPL. In addition, the

IMO, end user documentation  for the application != advertisements for
the software.

<beginquote>

	"the end-user documentation  included with the redistribution,
	if any, must include the..."
<endquote>
	
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