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Re: DFSG audit of X-Oz license wanted



On 2004-02-17 05:22:39 +0000 David Nusinow <david_nusinow@verizon.net> wrote:

3. The end-user documentation included with the redistribution, if
          any, must include the following acknowledgment:
"This product includes software developed by X-Oz Technologies (http://www.x-oz.com/)." Alternately, this acknowledgment may appear in the software itself, if and wherever such third-party acknowledgments normally appear.

This clause shares the problems of the new XFree86 licence. It specifies the exact invariant wording for the non-copyright-notice credit, is vague about what "end-user documentation" is (does the licence count?) and doesn't specify who picks which alternate clause applies (should state "at your choice" or similar). It may be DFSG-free, but I would really prefer those buglets fixed.

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